Tag Archives: netherlands

Enabling the Disabled: A View From the UK

• May 6, 2015

I have been asked a few times why I so frequently mention disabled folk in the same breath as bicycle folk. It’s quite simple. I’ve seen how difficult getting about is for people with disabilities in the U.S. and how well they and bicycle folk share Dutch bikeways. Actually, I get exceptionally frustrated seeing how […]

A Kid, Some Bottles, and an Engineer On a Bike

• July 15, 2014

By U.S. standards we have fairly good pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure around the Twin Cities. For many years Minneapolis was ranked number two in the nation and quite proud of it. In 2011 we even jumped up to number one briefly. How times change. We were back to our comfortable number two in 2012, the […]