1. Campaiging and Funding
Marjolein de Lange

2. Oudere plaatjes
1950’s and 1960’s: City building

3. 1950-1970
Spuistraat, Amsterdam
More and more cars
Congestion
Road unsafety
Parking problems

4. Safety and bicycle use
1975 - now:
1800 Development in time
- Suburbanisation
- Car use 50
1600
+ Transport policy
+ Clean & Healthy
1400
40
Cycle fatalities per billion bicycle km
1200
Bicycle km pppy
1000 30
800
20
600
1950 –1975:
• 400
- Suburbanisation
- Car use 10
- Transport policy
• 200
- Old fashioned
• 0 0
1950 1955 1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005
ThinkBike workshop Washington Bicycle use Bicycle fatalities

5. Call for safety and liveability in
many Dutch cities

6. The bicycle:
The perfect vehicle in the city
• clean
• silent
• affordable
• healthy
• saves energy
• and

7. space

8. time
Traffic lights at National Museum:
± 20 cars in 40 seconds
> 50 cyclists in 10 seconds

9. Make cycling safe for all
And easy and fast

10. From 1980’s
The bicycle is taken more seriously:
Local level:
- cyclists groups
- citizens call for safety, livable city and fewer cars
- politicians follow
- municipalities listen more to cyclists

11. Regional and national level
- Bicycle Masterplan (1990):
- examples
- research
- communication
- design principles
- Money for bicycle facilities: local and national
- Parking of cars: parking fees are local taxes
- Urban planning:
- compact cities are good for cycling
- urban sprawl is not

12. Safe, easy and fast
Partial one-way street

13. Bicycle friendly speed hub

14. Short cuts for cyclists

15. Main roads:
Through traffic
50 (or 70) km/h
Seperate cycle paths

16. Safety and bicycle use
1975 - now:
1800 Development in time
- Suburbanisation
- Car use 50
1600
+ Transport policy
+ Clean & Healthy
1400
40
Cycle fatalities per billion bicycle km
1200
Bicycle km pppy
1000 30
800
20
600
1950 –1975:
• 400
- Suburbanisation
- Car use 10
- Transport policy
• 200
- Old fashioned
• 0 0
1950 1955 1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005
ThinkBike workshop Washington Bicycle use Bicycle fatalities

17. Challenges
Main roads with (too)
many functions…

18. Challenges:
Bicycle parking
Longer distances
Blue mopeds

19. The Dutch