If you weren’t already aware, the Netherlands is one of the best places in the world to be an urban cyclist. Take this floating bridge, which was recently erected in Eindhoven above a busy highway roundabout.
The Hovenring was not a cheap piece of infrastructure but it’s a beautiful addition to the city landscape. The 236 ft diameter structure sees over a thousand cyclist circumnavigate it’s track each weekend.
Via Neatorama
@plebs: I’ll check in my shed, may take a while, since I have the tendency to store my bikes and parts in front of my barges.
@fraser: everything OK, Eindhoven is quite inland, so no real problems, thanks
The idea for a Dutch mountain isn’t mine, a guy named Thijs Zonneveld is trying to raise the money to build us one. It’s quite complicated (duh) and cost about half the anual US military budget. His website: http://www.diebergkomter.nl
The site is in Dutch only , but you can buy a €50 certificate to finance the research 🙂
if this for USA is pure science fiction,here in Italy that thing would cost 25 billion euro,it would take about 20 years to be built,about 100 people would get arrested for bribery and corruption,99 of them would be acquitted and would enter in politics,while the bridge itself would crumbled in pieces at the first wind.
The video shows something that doesn’t seem to fit with “floating bridge.”
It is really a traffic circle for non-motorized transport, with a standard signalized intersection for motorized traffic below. And it is the former who have to power their way to from their “perch,” not those with motors.
What kind of music should accompany closeups of the motor traffic?
