Giro d'Italia 2010

The Dutch are mad for traffic calming, way more than anywhere else in my experience. This is probably due to the (high) population density as much as anything.

The Dutch pioneered something known as 'Urban Safety Management' (I don't know the Dutch word for it). This treats residential areas in particular. It has some of the longest history there. There's some good work that has been done, but a lot of it obviously doesn't lend itself to bike racing.

I didn't understand why they didn't have some kind of warning person or other facility there for the race, e.g. a gradual narrowing of the carriageway. It's fairly obvious that if a tightly-packed peloton comes across this sort of thing that it's going to be squeezed.