David Hembrow is a British-Dutch
cycling advocate who resides in
Assen
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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
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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 home country of the UK to make
cycling in London
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and in other towns and cities safe.
He also sees these attempts as being far too slowly implemented to allow British
cycling infrastructure
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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
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, 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 used to conduct study tours to show people the cycling infrastructure of the Netherlands but no longer offers them because of the environmental impact of international travel.
See also
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Cycling in the Netherlands
Cycling is the second-most 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 ...
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Bicycle advocacy
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