fietspad, or bike path in English, documents a trip across many parts of the Netherlands in September 2022 to document it’s bicycle infrastructure. With only a loose plan in place, the intent was to just ride from city to city, stay the odd extra day in some and document what we saw. It wasn’t a trip just to see the highlights frequently shared on social media, although there are some.

The hope was to document the real bike infrastructure that people use every day, from big cities to smaller towns, urban to rural environments, the good and the bad. I took photos as we travelled and recorded my thoughts at the end of each day. The book wraps with things I’m interested in seeing done in the North American context.

Cities visited included Utrecht, Gouda, Delft, Rotterdam, Eindhoven, Nijmegan, Arnhem, Zwolle, Groningen, Amsterdam, and Zandvoort as well as many places between. fietspad shares what we encountered, providing approximately 400 pages of Dutch bicycle infrastructure.