Another in the “Streetfilms in Sixty Second” series!
THIS is what it looks like when cars “are guests”. A short segment (lightly re-edited) of a 2017 Streetfilm I made while at the annual Velo-City conference I made in Arnhem-Nijmegen. This was a great Dutch Infrastructure tour I rode on and recorded. You can see the full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur7Jaitm_sk
In 2022 the conference will be in Ljubljana! Let’s all go!!
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This is so nice. If you want to see how not to do a bike street, visit Rüttenscheider Straße in Essen, Germany.
Bike boulevard +
"We have the street bumps, we have the signs, which is especially made for the cycle streets. Apart from that we don't have any signs at all…because, well, we don't do that in a residential area."
Now that's an idea!
If we must continue to build sprawling, miserable, homogenous suburbs here in North America, give me one good reason why those suburban streets can't look and function exactly like this.
I'll wait.
Could someone explain why the parking spaces are elevated? Does this have something to do with car mirrors and being able to see cyclists better?
My city decided to use the first few months of the COVID-crisis to very quickly build in a few of these streets here… Pretty sneaky, but I'm not complaining.
It is important to clarify that this arrangement cannot be applied everywhere !
A "Fietsstraat" only works when there are more cyclists than cars on the street. If the balance of power is not there, the car will put too much pressure on the cyclist in front of it, or the driver will not respect the rule and will overtake him/her (it happens in Netherland too, just look at some Bicycle Dutch videos).
I live in Adelaide, South Australia, well what can I say, we currently have a Government here making statements that will make Adelaide the cycling capital of Australia and they've already started making "safer" cycling tracks – which literally are designed for only one type of cyclist – the lycra brigade on mountain bikes. Sometimes I get inclined to pick up the phone to the responsible Minister and say – hey pal, why don't you just have look how things are done in Holland.
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Not the best example, usually a Fietsstraat is without speed bumps, as the bikes define the speed.
Tomorrow I will go to the jaw-surgion, all the way from my home in Amsterdam Oost to the West of the city, and I will see the progress of the Fietsstraat around the city center. Like every infrastructural project it takes some time. I still remember when even these very busy routes were narrow and paved with bumpy loose concrete tiles.
Now that this ring is there I will avoid riding through the center even more, because you can overtake other cyclists, and because tourists don't misstake the fietsstraat for a sidewalk you don't have to brake every 50 meters you roll a lot faster.
Guess the kilometers per patato will allso improve substantially once this project is finished.