April 2018 - Hans on the Bike - 15 years of blogging

The Dutch railways conductor was waiting with my backpack in the back of the train

The incredible service of the Dutch railways returning my backpack within three hours

April 24, 2018 Hansonthebike 3

Reading Time: 4 minutes Last Saturday I took the train of the Dutch Railways (NS) from a small town north of Leiden to Aardenhout south of Haarlem. When leaving the train, I forgot my backpack.

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Ring-and-Post to appear at Ottawa Bus Stops

April 10, 2018 Hansonthebike 0

Reading Time: 4 minutes It is still fairly new for Ottawa, but I see gradual changes coming: cycling to a bus stop or a transport hub. I have been a fan of this concept for a long time, naturally because I have been exposed to it in the Netherlands for many years. The large bike parking systems in the Netherlands you read about regularly are the proof that if you have a well functioning public transport system and a safe route to get to that hub, travellers will eventually embrace this system of cycling/walking and public transit. In the Netherlands, about 600,000 or over [Read more…]

Hans on the Bike writes about cycling in the Ottawa-Gatineau National Capital Region in Canada. Stay up to date with cycling developments in this bike friendly city with hundreds of kilometres of pathways.

Hans on the Bike is not a very competitive cyclist; most of the time he is cycling around town doing errands or guiding tourists while waving to friends.

As a bicycle tour guide, he hears tons of great feed back from people from all over the world. Even from the Dutch! This is encouraging.

Ms. Hans on the Bike cycles too and is often the voluntold for Hans’ pictures. She famously declared she was not going to bike below +10C but lowered the treshold to -10C over time.

Hans on the Bike - 15 years of blogging

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Month: April 2018

The incredible service of the Dutch railways returning my backpack within three hours

Ring-and-Post to appear at Ottawa Bus Stops