Reinforcing everyday bike culture in North America, one Dutch bike at a time. Come ride an armchair on a cloud, with us. Get one here: https://xitter.cf/t.co/hLQjcNfroU
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📕 Check out the free PDF on 'Mobility Language Matters':
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Today #Amsterdam starts a transition experiment of 6 weeks that reclaims a car dominated street as public space.
There are already some important lessons about the importance of language. 1/🧵
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“A person on a bicycle can go three to four times faster than the pedestrian, but uses five times less energy in the process.
Equipped with this tool, humans outstrip the efficiency of not only all machines but all other animals as well.”
- Ivan Illich, ‘Energy & Equity’ (1973) – at Midden-Delfland, Nederland
ALT A man in a grey jeans and a black hooded jacket rides a bicycle on a grey asphalt path in a nature area in South Holland. He is surrounded on both sides by water.
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I’ll be speaking @PKN_Winnipeg on March 1st! Will be great to do a live chat about @plainbicycle – at Winnipeg, Manitoba
Here they are, the speakers of #pknwpg46! Get to know each of them in the coming days, and catch them talk in the 20x20 format on March 1st at @myparktheatre!
Doors at 7:30 PM, show at 8. Admission is pay-what-you-want, but we suggest $10. Tix + info: pknwpg46.eventbrite.com
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Happy #WinterBikeToWorkDay.
The global version of this event was overshadowed by war, but you can help do good. Consider supporting this project run by some of the same Ukrainian NGOs who would have loved to be celebrating with us: u-cycle.org.ua/projects/bike…
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Normally, we all ride together on Friday.
After a pandemic, we also celebrate on Saturday.
But not this year.
Not without Ukraine.
Soon we'll all ride together.
Meanwhile, support #BikesForUkraine.
Read how and why:
WinterBiketoWorkDay.org
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Studies have shown men to be twice as likely as women to travel using individual vehicles. This is part of a long history of men dominating the automotive industry, elevating vehicles over all other modes of transportation, and linking vehicles to their masculine identities. 🧵
ALT Two people biking through a row of vehicles despite a green light for cyclists
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The Hovenring gets attention but Eindhoven also has this cool bicycle interchange. It's a clever solution for navigating what would otherwise be a dangerous and inhospitable environment for people on bikes.
ALT Overview of the interchange. cars and trucks overhead
ALT view from a tunnel
ALT view of an underpass with a truck overhead
ALT google map with bike route view.
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Our streets need to be urgently redesigned to prioritise active travel and mitigate against more frequent extreme weather events.
Here’s an example from Cardiff using sustainable drainage systems, new street trees and an improved environment for pedestrians crossing.
ALT Before and after street in Cardiff showing improvement is sustainable urban drainage systems and new street trees.
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Amsterdam opened this week the world's first underwater bicycle facility. There is room for 7,000 bike. This is an engineering masterpiece.
learn more from Pieter Visser from @AmsterdamNL, Video by @Cycling_Embassy
More info: dutchcycling.nl/knowledge/cy…
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Dutch railways have built 300,000 bike parking spaces since 2019. From that process, they have developed nine design principles:
1. Proximity (to Platform)
2. Always Space
3. Safety
4. Good Flow
5. Comfort & Ease
6. Free of Charge
7. Sheltered
8. Service Available
9. Sustainable – at Rotterdam, The Netherlands
ALT A bicycle parking facility at Rotterdam Centraal Station is filled with dozens of bikes on two-tiered racks. A blue and yellow train waits at the platform above.
Not all cities (yes, even European ones…) are as bikeable as Dutch cities, but they all can be if they choose to be. Just ask Brussels.
(Finally) another piece of the Small Ring that has been transformed from city highway to city boulevard. With comfortable and safe infrastructure for pedestrians and cyclists, as well as trees. 🌳🚲🚶♀️
#BrusselsForPeople
➡️ pascalsmet.brussels/en/proje…
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A train that runs on 100% wind power, at a station that runs on 100% sun power, fed by a bike that runs on 100% leg power.
The technology needed for a better mobility future isn’t waiting to be discovered by corporations; it exists and is waiting to be discovered by politicians. – at Delft, Nederland
ALT An elderly man in winter attire cycles through an underpass beneath Delft Campus Station. A train waits at the platform above, and the roof is made of black solar panels.
“It wastes public money NOT to do it”
The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart govts do the math on investing in better mobility.
Let’s be clear — it wastes public money to NOT do it.
#CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife
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The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart govts do the math on investing in better mobility.
Let’s be clear — it wastes public money to NOT do it.
#CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife
Kicksleds with plows are a thing.
We now have some.
Test run videos shall be made.
@WinnipegTrails
That’s approximately twenty two million eight dollar (Canadian) beers, by the way.
