Good Cycling Facility of the Week: 1st August 2019

This week's Good Cycling Facility is a low motor traffic street in the centre of the Dutch town of Veenendaal.

Veenendaal is a town that expanded rapidly in the second half of the twentieth century This modern shopping street bans motor traffic, except for deliveries at limited periods, but allows cycling in both directions, at all times of day. A rising bollard prevents motor traffic from entering the street outside of permitted times, at the southern end of the street.

Full cycle permeability like this is particularly important for access to town centres - cycling should only be banned on these kinds of streets where pedestrian volumes are especially high and where attractive, safe and faster parallel through-routes have been provided.