Maliebaan bicycle lane
The long and straight lane "maliebaan" was created as sports track in 1637 (see the plaque at the other end of the street). After the game died out it became a regular street in the growing city of Utrecht/NL. At this end the plaque states that at the adress maliebaan 89 the "Dutch union of velolocipedisten" was founded in 1883. That union later became the ANWB, now the largest travelers' association in NL. This union asked the city counsel to turn the western lane of the maliebaan into the first bicycle lane of the Netherlands, which was opened september 15, 1885. Submitted by Danny Kalkhoven