Today was the very last chance to go rail cycling on the Holtingerveld. The landowners no longer allow it. “It was a very nice project. I have had a lot of nice and positive reactions and then it comes to an end from one day to the next. You lose a child,” says initiator Erik Hendriks.
“The only thing we can do now is get the materials from the field. Break up the rails, stack it up and then it comes up for sale for someone else who has a beautiful nature reserve where they can put it. And if it is not sold , then it still yields something as scrap iron,” says Hendriks. Breaking up is a job that takes up to 2.5 weeks, because more than 6,000 bolts and screws have to be loosened to remove the rails.
The Van Cranenbroek family from Budel in Brabant was the last user. They went rail bicycles to celebrate the parents’ wedding anniversary. “It was really fun. It was a lot of fun to do once. We had never done it before. It’s a nice way to see nature. It’s different from cycling or walking. The dogs could come along and the baby. family we could go out in no time. It is also a beautiful environment. Too bad it was the last time,” says Sabine van Cranenbroek.
The length of the rail cycle route is 2.6 kilometers and it took most people about half an hour. “It was a nice distance. You don’t have to do this for hours. Nice half an hour there and half an hour back. It pedals quite lightly. The route was not very straight either. A little up, a little down and a I think it’s a bit more adventurous than cycling straight ahead,” says Cranenbroek.
Hendriks wouldn’t be an entrepreneur if he didn’t already have new plans. “We are working on a moving maze, among other things. That is a maze that changes continuously. Normally when you walk through a maze you know roughly where you have to go left or right. But in the moving maze doors, roads and doors keep changing. corridors. We are working on that now and it will be open early next year.”