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City planning in the Netherlands and throughout Europe plans around bicycles and bike routes. As the following video shows, they have organized the town(s) so that it is actually easier and safer to travel by bicycle than it is by car: I don’t know about you, but I’d love to spend a couple months exploring …
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Permanent link to this article: https://trailsnet.com/2010/12/08/netherlands-bicycle-routes-and-city-planning/
I enjoy finding new trail blogs. I just found one entitled, Assabet River Rail Trail’s Blog. It had me from the first sentence: “Some communities embrace rail trails more than others.” The Boulder Creek Path passes through downtown Boulder, CO. That is so true. I put rail trail communities into three categories: Those that don’t …
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Permanent link to this article: https://trailsnet.com/2010/12/07/asabet-river-rail-trail/
For those of you interested in recumbents, I just added the recumbent bicycle source to the blogroll (in the left column). I still think that recumbents and rail-trails are the perfect mix. Riding a recumbent trike or bike on a rail trail is about as close to heaven on earth as we can get. I …
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Permanent link to this article: https://trailsnet.com/2010/12/06/recumbent-bikes-and-trikes/
Even those of those of us who enjoy cross-country skiing and snowshoeing on snowy winter trails, sometimes long for the warmth of a summer trail filled w/ the sounds of babbling brooks, chirping insects, and croaking frogs. So here’s a little slice of a summer trail for you to play whenever you start to feel …
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Permanent link to this article: https://trailsnet.com/2010/12/05/winter-trails-are-nice-but/
OMG!! Can you imagine this on the Silver Comet Trail or the Tammany Trace trail or… Well watch this video of the Freecross, a cool outdoor elliptical machine and tell me you’re not dying to get this on a nice paved path or concrete trail somewhere: According to the Freecross website, founder Wolfgang Eisenberg started …
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Permanent link to this article: https://trailsnet.com/2010/12/04/freecross-perfect-for-rail-trails/
I am constantly amazed by how, when it comes to cycling infrastructure and trail building, the Netherlands and other Scandinavian/European countries seem to “get it.” In the United States, the answer to congestion (and just about everything else) is to just keep throwing money into more highways, more lanes, more polluting, more fossil fuel consumption… …
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Permanent link to this article: https://trailsnet.com/2010/12/03/the-netherlands-invests-in-cycling-routes/
