Ams­ter­dam is undis­put­ed­ly the Euro­pean bike cap­i­tal. The modal split for cycling reach­es around 50% in the city as a whole and 62% in the inner city. In Ams­ter­dam, cycling is not a sport, but an every­day mode of transport.

And while oth­er cities are more or less eager­ly work­ing on the exten­sion of their bike infra­struc­ture, we’re already there. Bicy­cle lanes form a con­tin­u­ous net­work, they’re broad enough for con­ver­sa­tion­al cycling and equipped with their own traf­fic lights. The Cen­tral Sta­tion has turned into a mul­ti-modal trans­port hub with plug-in park­ing facil­i­ties for 11,000 bikes – even under water.

But even Ams­ter­dam still faces some chal­lenges, includ­ing bike-clut­tered pub­lic spaces and inter­fer­ence between dif­fer­ent modes of transport.