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Pedaling along bike lanes on a main street in Utrecht with a couple diversions along residential streets. Note the bollards used as modal filters to divert through-traffic of cars, but not people on bikes or walking. See also: raised crossings at the intersections between main streets & residential -- acting as a physcial speed reducer -- requiring drivers to slow down before crossing the walking and pedaling traffic.

How they bridged a wide canal when a school was in the way. On one side of the Dafne Schippers Bridge is a curved ramp to the top of the school -- leading to the bridge across the water. Named for the world champion athlete who also happens to live in the Utrecht neighborhood. (Video at 2x speed.)

For the story & more video, check out this post from Mark of Bicycle Dutch: https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2017/04/11/the-dafne-schippers-bridge-is-open/

Lots of construction for safe routes to school project: sidewalks + tighter turn corners + bike lanes eventually. Before: dirt footpaths. (Noted that this is the U.S. version of an elementary school route -- wiiiide streets.)

On the separate bike path in Zuid-Kennermerland Park - between Haarlem & the North Sea.