David Hembrow

{{short description|Dutch cycling advocate}}

{{for|the British swimmer|David Hembrow (swimmer)}}

David Hembrow is a British-Dutch cycling advocate who resides in Assen, Netherlands. In his English-language blog, A View from the Cycle Path, he describes how the Dutch cycling infrastructure works, how it has become the best in the world, and how this infrastructure encourages the Netherlands to have highest level of cycling mode share in the world.{{cite web|title=A Tour of a Whole Country That Has 'Transformed Itself for Cycling'|url=http://www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2013/10/tour-whole-country-has-transformed-itself-cycling/7333/|work=The Atlantic Cities website|publisher=The Atlantic|accessdate=29 November 2013|author=Sarah Goodyear|date=October 23, 2013}} His blog has become quite influential in the world of cycling advocacy.{{cite web|title=David Hembrow and Velo-City 2014|url=http://bikeadelaide.blogspot.com.au/2013/08/david-hembrow-and-velo-city-2014.html|work=Bike Adelaide|accessdate=29 November 2013|date=3 August 2013}}

Hembrow is very critical of what he sees poorly executed attempts in his home country of the UK to make cycling in London and in other towns and cities safe.{{cite web|title=Has Britain progressed in the last six years?|url=http://www.aviewfromthecyclepath.com/2013/11/has-britain-progressed-in-last-six-years.html|work=A view from the cycle path|accessdate=29 November 2013|date=8 November 2013}}{{cite web|title=Has London progressed in the last six years?|url=http://www.aviewfromthecyclepath.com/2013/11/has-london-progressed-in-last-six-years.html|work=A view from the cycle path|accessdate=29 November 2013|date=15 November 2013}} He also sees these attempts as being far too slowly implemented to allow British cycling infrastructure to remotely catch up to anywhere near to even the poorest-serviced Dutch cities in terms of cycling infrastructure.{{cite web|title=How much time do you have? Who are we doing this for?|url=http://www.aviewfromthecyclepath.com/2013/09/how-much-time-do-you-have-who-are-we.html|work=A view from the cycle path|accessdate=29 November 2013|date=6 September 2013}}

Hembrow and his family moved from Cambridge, England (where he was once heavily involved in the Cambridge Cycling Campaign{{cite web|title=The truth about Cambridge|url=http://www.aviewfromthecyclepath.com/2011/11/truth-about-cambridge.html|work=A view from the cycle path|date=28 November 2011|accessdate=29 November 2013}}) to the Netherlands in 2007 so that they could live in a bicycle-friendly environment.{{cite web|title=Has Assen progressed over the last six years?|url=http://www.aviewfromthecyclepath.com/2013/11/has-assen-progressed-over-last-six-years.html|work=A view from the cycle path|accessdate=29 November 2013|author=David Hembrow|date=22 November 2013}} He used to conduct study tours to show people the cycling infrastructure of the Netherlands but no longer offers them because of the environmental impact of international travel.