A commuter town comparison between the Netherlands and Ireland – From Baarn to Naas: Part 1
— From Baarn to Naas – Part 1: Town Centre to Train Station COMMENT & ANALYSIS / LONG READ: Ireland is a long way behind … Read more
Netherlands not a ‘Bicycle Paradise’ — shift in thinking needed to follow Dutch cycling-friendliness
— Identifying mechanisms of change is a precondition for ‘copying’ Dutch cycling. COMMENT & ANALYSIS / LONG READ: Around the world, there’s people who just want … Read more
Dublin cycling campaigners ask: What can we learn from the Netherlands?
Tomorrow (Monday) a group of Dublin Cycling Campaign advocates, who visited the Netherlands as part IrishCycle.com’s Dutch cycling study tour in September, are to ask: … Read more
Utrecht is too modest about bicycle parking
Utrecht — a city in the Netherlands which is probably more cycling-friendly than other Dutch city of its size or large — is now famed … Read more
Can Waterford become Ireland’s cycling capital? And why would it want to?
I was in Utrecht for a couple of hours before I figured out what the strange noise was. It was silence – city centre at … Read more
VIDEO: Duct tape fixes congested cycle path in the Netherlands
DUTCH CYCLING SERIES: Shift, a company of behavioral scientists based in Nijmegen, fixed a congested local cycle path using duct tape, as shown in the … Read more
Irish politicians: See what a cycling-friendly place looks like
Irish politicians: See what a cycling-friendly place looks like — join our Dutch cycling study tour on the last weekend in August! There’s nothing like … Read more
4 of 7 excuses why Ireland can’t copy cycling in the Netherlands
COMMENT & ANALYSIS: The Netherlands is just over 1,000km from Ireland. So, why does Ireland’s attempts at cycle routes continue to fall desperately short compared … Read more