[Ep. 120] The Dutch build cycle paths that continue on their junctions. They must have wider streets, right? Wrong! This video shows how it is done, no extra space is needed.
More info: http://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2011/04/07/state-of-the-art-bikeway-design-or-is-it/
And see part 2 of this video too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HDN9fUlqU8
A real-life example of this intersection design is shown in the following video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TemAwgUrWJc
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This would be so much better to have in the states! I'm always afraid of hitting a cyclist, especially near schools
the only thing with including this in the US is planners need to make room for trucks to get where they need(and should) be. in a combination residential/commercial area in a city, combination trucks longer than 30' shouldn't be down there anyway so implementing this would take not much more space.
Which software did you use for this?
The problem does not originate at the intersection, therefore redesigning the it is pointless! At the point where a motorist initiates a turn, a cyclist, who is now on a collision course, may be many meters from the intersection and therefore invisible to the motorist. Even a relatively weak cyclist can travel at 10 m/s or more. If a motorist takes 3 s to traverse an intersection, the cyclist will have moved 30m in the meantime. These intersections "solve" the problem only insofar as it would be practically impossible for a cyclist to traverse them at 10 m/s!
I love it! Another benefit is that the cyclist doesn't need to cross a lane of traffic and have cars on both sides of them
@BicycleDutch have there been any improvements 10 years later?
It annoys me that this video is 11 years old now and this is still only standard design in the Netherlands and maybe a select number of cities around the world, and nowhere else.
Germany 2023 – suprised pikachu face
good designs facing bureaucratic resistance kills my soul.
what car-centric naysayers don't realize about making cities bike-friendly is it frees up traffic, and so you need smaller parking lots… which means more buildings and destinations can be built there. So the higher density of destinations means you don't NEED cars to go to places in the first place. Imagine having twice as many more places to go to in the same distance.
It's like when you stop drinking alcohol, you not only ingest less calories, but you're also less lethargic, so you WANT to be more active too.
so we dont need to do anything
its allready like this everywhere, but whithout greenlines
Makes waaay too much sense in Merikuh where they want to park on the curb of a street because walking a few blocks is waaay too much exertion, exercise and a waste of time to get to a storefront. (Think Wall-E). Great traffic and safety design solution though, Please keep posting these ideas!
What are the dimensions for this crossing?
american are too dumb to understand this design, they only think about cars and how to make them go faster on road, in expense of safety of pedestrians and cyclists.
As someone who recently moved to 'Vancouver' (Richmond, actually) and seriously considering buying a bike as daily commute, how can you turn right from the bicycle lane shown at 0:25?
seen these popping up in my community in ontario. please dont take this video down, i am sharing it with everyone i can to make sure they know how to use these intersections if they encounter one.
In England we put the pedestrian crossing on the inside, that way it's different from the Dutch design and we get to say it was our idea.
It’s both ways in Jacksonville Fl
An absolute classic, well done!
This video was 12 years ago. We are 12 years behind in the US.