Those crazy Dutch guys...

[Dave 123]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20942340

 

[Globalti]

Yebbut they don't have a road network, which is mostly Roman, Medieval or Victorian. They have lots of space and nice flat straight roads on a nice soft even silty subsoil.

 

[green1]

Glow in the dark roads... I wonder what sort of cafe they were in when that brainwave came.

 

[headcoat]

One day this will happen, but will we be here to see it

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20942340

 

[swee'pea99]

Amazing to see 'joined up thinking' in action. Imagine a government over here willing and able to trade off the costs of investment in infrastructure with the cost savings thru' accident prevention. Like that's ever going to happen...

 

[ianrauk]

Already posted

One day this will happen, but will we be here to see it

Already posted here so will merge

 

[ArDee]

Yebbut they don't have a road network, which is mostly Roman, Medieval or Victorian. They have lots of space and nice flat straight roads on a nice soft even silty subsoil.

Lots of Space? The Netherlands is about a fifth the size of the UK with a population density about 60% higher.

 

[Globalti]

Yebbut British roads are mostly squeezed into narrow corridors in towns and cities or between banks or walls or hedges or on hillsides whereas Dutch roads are correctly laid out with plenty of space for a separate cycleway alongside. Don't ask me the historical reason why theirs are so much better; all I know is that in the British context things didn't begin to improve until turnpike roads, which are generally wider and better engineered.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Yebbut British roads are mostly squeezed into narrow corridors in towns and cities or between banks or walls or hedges or on hillsides whereas Dutch roads are correctly laid out with plenty of space for a separate cycleway alongside. Don't ask me the historical reason why theirs are so much better; all I know is that in the British context things didn't begin to improve until turnpike roads, which are generally wider and better engineered.

but a lot of the dutch cycle routes are not on roads and when we cycled through the Netherlands, a road map was useless because we spent more time on cycle routes away from roads than cycle lanes on roads.

 

[Saddle bum]

I can see the petrolheads just loving this when they find out.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Nice to see a country that puts cyclists interests first,however controversial they may be!
Those bikes have high handlebars though, don't they have drops over there?

 

[Globalti]

They must suffer in the wind; and I bet they get plenty of wind over there too.

 

[Bobtoo]

Quality journalism at work in the description. Road paint already has "reflective" crystals in it, the word they are looking for is "luminous".

 

[snorri]

Don't ask me the historical reason why theirs are so much better;.

...........becaue the roads were built for people, all of the people and not just those people who wanted to drive everywhere from and back to their front door.

 

[MisterStan]

I was in Uppsala in Sweden some years ago; they were installing heating in the footpaths to keep them free of ice and snow - it was like the underfloor heating that you see fitted in houses now and i believe run off a ground source heat pump.