Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Amsterdam

On Potato Omelets and Winter Cycling

By Alex Marshall | Mar 18, 2008 | 36 Comments

A Spanish tortilla, unlike the Mexican version, is essentially a potato omelet. You fry some diced-up onions and potatoes in oil, and then pour in some beaten egg. Flip it over, and voila, you have a tasty, round golden thing to cut into slices and eat. Back when I was living in Spain some 25 […]

When in Rome, Share Bikes

By Jason Varone | Nov 12, 2007 | 14 Comments

The competition is heating up between Eurpoean cities seeking to build the best bicycling infrastructure. As we noted this morning, Amsterdam is mimicking Copenhagen‘s "green wave" for cyclists. And now Rome is bringing a Paris-style bike sharing project to the Italian capital by 2008. Modeled after the Parisian Vélib program, users will ride free for […]

In Amsterdam Cyclists Always Get the Green Light

By Jason Varone | Nov 12, 2007 | 2 Comments

The green wave of Odense, Denmark. Taking bicycle infrastructure to the next level, Amsterdam traffic engineers have created a "green wave" along Raadhuisstraat. Cyclists riding at a speed of 9 to 11 miles per hour will never have to stop at a red light. Tests show that the cyclist "green wave" is helping buses move […]

Tearing Up the Streets, and Pants

By Alex Marshall | Nov 1, 2007 | 41 Comments

A bicyclist in Amsterdam: "Dignified, civilized, unhurried and even elegant…" The ragged, angry tear on the woman’s jeans at ankle level was matched by her angry expression on her face as she looked in vain for some sort of consolation or advice from the bike shop attendant, to whom she explained how the front sprocket […]

NYC Gets Its First-Ever Physically-Separated Bike Path

By Aaron Naparstek | Sep 20, 2007 | 154 Comments

The Department of Transportation revealed plans for New York City’s first-ever physically-separated bike lane, or "cycle track," at a Manhattan Community Board 4 meeting last night. The new bike path will run southbound on Ninth Avenue from W. 23rd to W. 16th Street in Manhattan. Unlike the typical Class II on-street bike lane in which […]

No Clothes, No Cars, Just Bikes

By Jason Varone | Jun 6, 2007 | 2 Comments

Brooklyn photographer Spencer Tunick, known for photographing thousands of naked people in public settings worldwide, is at it again, this time in Amsterdam. The Siyney Morning Herald reports: Dozens of women posed naked on their bicycles on a bridge over one of Amsterdam’s historic canals on Sunday – a unique sight even in a city […]

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