Safe school routes on municipal roads
Flemish Minister of Mobility and Public Works Lydia Peeters launched the new subsidy 'Safe school route on municipal roads' in March and has allocated 15 million euros for this. In the meantime, 7…
Breda cycles sponsored kilometers together
Twenty Breda children who cannot afford a bicycle will receive a new bicycle through the 'Breda cycles for Breda' campaign. Nearly 700 fellow citizens have collaborated with the Ring-Ring app in recent months…
rural areas should be more accessible
Seventeen organizations* are calling on the new Cabinet to make rural areas more accessible to recreationalists. The past corona year has shown how important it is to go out…
Solution needed for bicycle transport and NS bus
A solution is needed to transport bicycles on the routes around Zwolle where no trains currently run. Rover and the Cyclists' Union stated this in a message to NS.…
Swapfiets will collaborate with tire supplier Vittoria
With a view to increasing the quality and longevity of their popular e-bikes, Swapfiets is entering into a special partnership with the Italian tire supplier Vittoria. Swapfiets is the first…
Many companies do not encourage employees to cycle
More and more employers are encouraging their employees to use bicycles for business use. But the employee does not yet feel this way. So there is still…
Test mandatory bicycle reservation on the train starts July 10th
The summer months have now arrived and that means that many Dutch people are going out by bike. From July 10, the Dutch Railways will start the bicycle reservation trial in...
The Netherlands at the top of bicycle-friendly cities
Utrecht, Zwolle and Groningen lead the top 10 in the world rankings of bicycle-friendly cities. The list is drawn up annually by bicycle organization People for Bikes in the United States. In addition…
Cyclists can now also go to Groningen for LF…
Anyone who is considering going on a cycling holiday, or just wants a wonderfully active weekend away, can now go to Groningen for an LF weekend tour. The Eems-Dollard and Groninger Wadden routes are a variation on…
The Dutch want to cycle to work more often
Dutch people want to cycle to work more often this year. At the beginning of 2020, before COVID-19 emerged, 46 percent occasionally cycled to work and did 19...
Bicycle platform launches new LF Waterline route
Seamlessly in line with the theme year Ode to the Landscape, with Ode to the Dutch Waterlines as an important part, the Cycling Platform recently launched the new LF Waterline route. This Long Distance Cycling Route is ideally…
E-bike buyers in Germany and Belgium are younger than in…
Figures from the annual GfK E-bike Monitor 2020 show that there are more young e-bike buyers in Germany and Belgium than in the Netherlands. Among the e-bike buyers are…