Amsterdam may have recently ranked as the top city for cyclists, but in a place full of two-wheeled congestion, traffic and road rage, are there simply too many of them? An overabundance of bicycles ...
I’m in Amsterdam, in the bike shop equivalent to Pep Boys, picking out a souvenir Dutch bike bag when the “Streets of Philadelphia” comes on the store’s radio. It was as though Bruce dropped by to ...
In multiple European countries, bicycles play an important role when it comes to the mobility of the general citizenry. This is especially true in the Netherlands, where people living in the suburbs ...
Plagued by ever-shrinking space to park its hundreds of thousands of bicycles, Amsterdam opened Wednesday the first of its largest-ever bicycle parking complexes, built underwater in a pioneering ...
Industry news publication Bike Europe reports today that, in Amsterdam, people use their bicycles more per day on average than their cars: “The bicycle is the means of transport used most often in ...
You probably didn’t even notice, but I just returned from 17 days in France and Amsterdam. Even though I wasn’t working, I managed to snap a few photos of wonky street scenes, bicycles, and the people ...
Amsterdam is known for its canals, its coffeeshops and its thousands of bikes—up to 880,000 of them at last count. They zoom through narrow streets and line every street, bridge, and building. But now ...
Amsterdam is a model for human-powered transportation. Hidden amid the bike racks are amazing pedal-powered, transformational business lessons. While taking a recent photography holiday weekend in ...
About 6:30 weekday mornings, throngs of bicycles, with a smattering of motor scooters and pedestrians, pour off the ferries that carry bikers and other passengers free of charge across the IJ ...