Good Cycling Facility of the Week: 21st August 2014

This week we are featuring a new bicycle (and pedestrian) bridge in Lent, north Nijmegen - Het Groentje, or the Little Green One. (It's so new, the Streetview link does not show it, or the current situation!)

It's a wide, smooth and attractive bridge over a new ring road, with very shallow approach ramps to make it easy to cycle over. But it is not an isolated piece of infrastructure. It forms merely a part (a useful part) of a wide, smooth and fast bicycle route that runs north out of the city of Nijmegen. The bridge is in place purely to ensure a nice, safe continuous route, without having to interact with motor vehicles on the ring road.

Pretty bridges have to be functional too, forming parts of useful networks, designed to high standards. 

Read more about this bridge - courtesy of Mark Wagenbuur