Random comments from amsterdam
May. 30th, 2008 02:06 pm* Livredor has a more narrative description of the trip
* Amsterdam is beautifully cyclic. Although I hear annoying to actually try and walk through regularly. There are cycle paths everywhere. They're wider than a cycle. Indeed, they're as wide as two cycles, and often have two in opposite directions. Coming from Cambridge, this idea is exciting.
* However, many of the streets seem to be a gloriously muddled mix between pedestrian, tram, vehicular and cycle (including motor scooter) areas. There are generally two to three different intertwining lanes, where one combined pedestrian and tram, or vehicle and tram, or pedestrian and cycle, etc. Crossing a big street is an exercise in scary, as it's nearly always almost completely safe to cross each bit separately, but like frogger, if there's an actual tram there, then you die.
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* Amsterdam is beautifully cyclic. Although I hear annoying to actually try and walk through regularly. There are cycle paths everywhere. They're wider than a cycle. Indeed, they're as wide as two cycles, and often have two in opposite directions. Coming from Cambridge, this idea is exciting.
* However, many of the streets seem to be a gloriously muddled mix between pedestrian, tram, vehicular and cycle (including motor scooter) areas. There are generally two to three different intertwining lanes, where one combined pedestrian and tram, or vehicle and tram, or pedestrian and cycle, etc. Crossing a big street is an exercise in scary, as it's nearly always almost completely safe to cross each bit separately, but like frogger, if there's an actual tram there, then you die.
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