Bike ride on shared streets. There are numerous street design elements that help this be a comfortable & safe ride: red pavement used for bike priority (and bike-only), center rumble strip of bricks to alert drivers about slow driving, narrow lanes & narrow streets, bollards that restrict car through-traffic...see anything else?
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This canal now connects to the one shown below.
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Watch --> Major transformation of Utrecht canal, from Bicyle Dutch https://youtu.be/fePpwYCs_JM