David Hembrow, in what sounds a bout of pique, has pulled off the Interweb the invaluable collection of articles he has posted in the past five years on the subject of Dutch bicycle infrastructure.

We concur with David the Vole wishing that David the Beaver will, if not pick up the video camera again, allow the ignorami in the UK to study the Dutch Masters.

In the meantime, David the Vole alerts us that

The good news is that Mark Wagenbuur, who contributed quite a bit of material to A view in recent times, has set up an new blog, Bicycledutch, and reinstated some of his also excellent and enlightening material, originally published on A view, there.

And it is from the latest entry in Mark’s blog that we find this jewel:

A month ago the internet was buzzing with good news: a 20 kilometer (12.5 miles) four lane cycle superhighway in Sweden would connect the cities of Malmö and Lund… So I looked for the Swedish sources of all this news and found the pilot study for the plans.

On page 3 we find the proposed width of the cycle paths: 3-5 m.

That is exactly the same width as Dutch bi-directional cycle paths! That means that when they paint four lanes on the route these lanes would be between 75 centimeters and 1.25 meters wide. The only difference is that the Dutch just paint a middle line because riding side by side is very important in the Netherlands.

How civilised.