David Hembrow is a Dutch
cycling advocate who resides in
Assen
Assen () is a municipality and a city in the northeastern Netherlands, and is the capital (politics), capital of the province of Drenthe. It received City rights in the Netherlands, city rights in 1809. Assen is known for TT Circuit Assen, the ...
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Netherlands
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. In his English-language blog, ''A View from the Cycle Path'', he describes how the
Dutch cycling infrastructure works, how it has become the best in the world, and how this infrastructure encourages the Netherlands to have highest level of cycling
mode share
A modal share (also called mode split, mode-share, or modal split) is the percentage of travelers using a particular type of transportation or number of trips using said type. In freight transportation, this may be measured in mass.
Modal share i ...
in the world.
His blog has become quite influential in the world of cycling advocacy.
Hembrow is very critical of what he sees poorly executed attempts in his adopted home country of the UK to make
cycling in London
Cycling in London is a popular mode of transport and leisure activity within the capital city of the United Kingdom. Following a national decline in the 1960s of levels of utility cycling, cycling as a mode of everyday transport within London be ...
and in other towns and cities safe.
He also sees these attempts as being far too slowly implemented to allow British
cycling infrastructure
Cycling infrastructure is all infrastructure cyclists are allowed to use. Bikeways include bike paths, bike lanes, cycle tracks, rail trails and, where permitted, sidewalks. Roads used by motorists are also cycling infrastructure, except whe ...
to remotely catch up to anywhere near to even the poorest-serviced Dutch cities in terms of cycling infrastructure.
Hembrow and his family moved from
Cambridge
Cambridge ( ) is a university city and the county town in Cambridgeshire, England. It is located on the River Cam approximately north of London. As of the 2021 United Kingdom census, the population of Cambridge was 145,700. Cambridge bec ...
, England (where he was once heavily involved in the ''Cambridge Cycling Campaign''
) to the Netherlands in 2007 so that they could live in a bicycle-friendly environment.
He conducts study tours to show people the cycling infrastructure of the Netherlands.
See also
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Cycling in the Netherlands
Cycling is a common mode of transport in the Netherlands, with 36% of Dutch people listing the bicycle as their most frequent way of getting around on a typical day, as opposed to the car (45%) and public transport (11%). Cycling has a modal sha ...
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Bicycle advocacy
Cycling advocacy consists of activities that call for, promote or enable increased adoption and support for cycling and improved safety and convenience for cyclists, usually within urbanized areas or semi-urban regions. Issues of concern typically ...
References
External links
A View from the Cycle Path*
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Mastodon
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English expatriates in the Netherlands
Cycling advocates
English bloggers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
British male bloggers
Sustainable transport pioneers