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One thing that is never pointed out properly is the fact that every cyclist you see pretty much equals 1 car less using the road infrastructure. If you have 100 people cycling trough a intersection an hour, you have 100 less cars an hour to facilitate for. And 100 cars less congestion.

Great presentation.

If I didn't dislike the Dutch language I would move there. I've already been learning and using German for at least 8 years or so. Dutch infrastructure and planning, in my opinion is better than German. Can't beat Dutch cycle paths and how there are train stations in small villages and towns. I also enjoy Dutch people more than German people usually. Dutch are more open and direct, which I love. Maybe once I have German citizenship I will move to Netherlands. I remember when I visited Netherlands and came back to the United States, how sad I was I couldn't go cycle around like in the Netherlands.

Great presentation as always.

I've been watching a lot of Chuck's lectures, and I think this was the best one by far. The questions were also some of the best I've heard at these events.

What intrigues Americans as well is hardly anyone on a bike in the Netherlands wears a helmet.

If anything I think the US need to scale down somewhat and look back at how cities looked before the car dominated the roads. If you see how current suburbia build with only houses and no shopping centers locally you end up again with a car orientated society. The only thing important to developers is to maximise their profits without making room for sidewalks and bike paths.Cities that really want to do things serious should demand it. And also local shops and not those malls at the edge of town.

It is amazing (and troubling) to see firsthand that people don't believe this message. We need to start paying attention. We can do better, and Cities can increase their housing stock WHILE respecting their values. In fact, we can increase those values while we increase housing by building, helping the economy and providing quality construction jobs.

The NL can do this for several reasons and one of them that they have reduced car dependency by having built a public transit system that for many is a, Say it with me now, "viable alternative to driving". This is pretty much a non starter in the US because, say it with me, "Socialism". I'd like to think that one day the US, or at least a few cities like Bend could get our collective sh*t together and do it right, but if they are anything like my town then any good ideas, like nuclear fusion, will always be 20 years away. And instead of expanding transit when they get some money, they just buy fancier gear. Sorry but those electric buses mean nothing if I have to wait 45 minutes for a bus that will take 45 minutes to get me 3 miles. Most US folks, at least the ones who have the most power, don't care about transportation equity or better urban conditions. They care about 4 things; Low taxes, cheap gas, free parking, and no congestion. And they are willing to build as many lanes as it takes to get that, but not one single roundabout.

Arterial streets can only go to 30 mph! Here in the US 35 mph is totally fine on residential streets. 45 sometimes even And residential streets can be 4,5,6, or 7 lane literal highways. They went crazy with zoning to make sure you couldn't have a coffee shop in your neighborhood, but an urban arterial or highway is totally fine. Gotta move those folks from the northers suburbs to the southern industrial area somehow, why not right through the places where the people in the middle live!

Greetings from Nijmegen🍷

cars are more important than people

I'm a grad student at UW, so it's cool to see a prof from my university, but let me guess: the proposed solution is to dergulate the construction industry, eliminate zoning laws, and institute free market policies that "make it esaier" for developers to build? Urban Planning is infested with neoliberal "free market" types whose solution to every problem is to cut the red tape, eliminate regulations, and make it easier for corporations to do whatever they want without oversight. AFter watching a bit, it turns out my guess was right: the solution, he claims, is to deregulate and build more housing. This doesn't make sense for a number of reasons. At a macro level our population is starting to stagnate, and population growth is becoming a real concern for many of these free market types, as I'm sure the professor is aware. The narrative that housing is expensive because of population growth makes no sense. In many communities, housing prices have double or trippled over the last decade even in areas where there has been no population growth. Most towns in America are not experiencing a population boom, although prices have nevertheless grown sky-high across the board. Buidling infill and creating higher density also ignores the impacts of induced demand and other complex economic phenomenon. Other things being equal, densely populated urban areas tend to be more expensive, not cheaper. If you take a smaller residential neighborhood and build a bunch of luxury condos and put in a bunch of trendy shops and businesses to make a "walkable downtown", that's not going to make the area more affordable, it's going to make it more expensive.

Bla Bla Bla, And, HOW much is the Book ? 📖

How come Americans are more often than not improperly dressed? Who stands on a podium wearing shorts? Very distasteful.

My only concern with the cyclist highways is how are motor bikes prevented or restricted from riding at high speeds on them to prevent them from causing a danger to normal cyclists?

1:26:49 parents taking children to school by bike, in a bakfiets for example..r from behindseat on regular bike, the child starts at early age to recognise the city it lives in. Landmarks, sounds of streets, and get at an early age a map in their heads of where they live, and when 8 and go to school alon, they know where to go, where to turn left, because at that appartementbuildin.. and so on...compared to only sky as what a child sees behind the seat of mom or dad driving the car..

1:18:18 ..and public transportation like busses get their own lanes, not to be stuck in rush hour trafficjams. To move as much people, not cars as possible.

52:33 cars don't do the shopping, people doe..and coming by car means less people..less customers, one car takes up 15 bike spaces..15 less customers per car..

Brilliant. Love the red surface. I would like to see USA go red with bike paths, currently they're adopting bright green.

1:25:40 The fastfood after school sounds amazing, especially het broodje Döner

asfalt = Tarmac

This is a great video! One of the best I have seen on cycling infrastructure, or may be it's better to say fietsinfrastructuur.

Bend is a very racist town

I'm called Sjors too. And now I discover that Americans actually can pronounce my name 🍻

The picture at 5:50 if I am not mistaken, was taken in the city of Arnhem which has amazing bike infrastructure and it has been my pleasure to work there for a while. I used that weird lookinjg bike roundabout quite a few times. It is literally surrounded by roads with seperated bike lanes and it was not only extremely efficient but also a nice break from cycling through streets designed for cars on my commute from the train station to the office.

There ia another big difference in the US if people have the right of way they will take it rightfully, in the Netherlands even if you have the right of way you are not allowed to TAKE it, it means the other one Have to give it .

We need this in Eugene & Springfield, too. There’s a big proposal for redoing Main Street in Springfield, and Dutch input is sorely needed. I have an idea to route traffic around downtown Springfield and close it to most traffic, and to develop downtown Springfield to look similar to Broadway & Pearl in Eugene.

What's not mentioned is the legal framework that makes this policy at all possible.

41:40 I never knew but I did notice. I always thought it was some kind of coincidence, or I was just lucky, but turns out it isn't. It's absolutely fantastic because you feel much more secure to drive when you don't have to panic at the stopping light because of an arriving emergency vehicle. Loved this presentation. Even as a Dutch I've had some great insights from this, like a behind the scenes. Thank you for sharing! Also I'd like to add: Thank you. From the bottom of my heart. I've always been grateful about our beautiful infrastructure, and how lovely it is it's getting the praise it deserves. You have all done a wonderful job together.

I thought I recognised the mountain. I spent a week nearby in August as a tourist from the Netherlands. We stayed in a house in Boring with a view of that same mountain. Just loved the name of the place, and yes beautiful place but quite boring.

De ANWB/VVD vriendjesclub had het toentertijd over 'autootje pesten'. Zoals Wiegel. Echter, links progressief won deze slag en de resultaten zijn ernaar. Niet met de zegen van de toenmalige VVD dat is. De ANWB wilde niet zijn vingers branden in deze. Gelukkig maar.

Don't forget in the Netherlands these projects are payed with our tax money, so a social thing a problem in the US and Canada.....

Where would all those stores go? Well, I don't know, how it would look like in Bend. I can just say how it is here in Europe. (at least in the places I have been) Usually the large stores/shops are in the center, in the small town I currently live in around a central market place. The market place can be reached by car, there is also a big parking garage. in two directions from the market place there are fully pedestrianized streets with no cars and a lot of smaller businesses. And then there are a lot of smaller businesses/shops like smaller grocery shops, bakeries, hairdressers within the residential areas, serving the citizens who live around them. In larger cities you often have several centers, one large downtown, and smaller ones for each district of the city.

Well,the thing is, we as dutchies don't really think about this all the time. Ore we don't even know all this about our traffic system. We take this as common sense and convenience. And sometimes we even expect this to be the case because "where do we pay thay high taxes for " would many people say.

What I always find underdeveloped/undermentioned when taking about implementing better functioning infrastructure is the impact of culture. The reason that the shown examples of improvements in infrastructure work is that they were not implemented in a vacuum. As was mentioned in the video, the community was included when proposing changes and a lot of research was done before the proposals were made. This is possible because the culture of the community/country plays a big part in the success of these endeavours. Changing a culture is a huge undertaking (if it works at all) if there is no need or if there are other priorities that take precedence. The culture of the Netherlands was changed from the inside out ever since the 70s and as multiple generations slowly got acclimatised and subjected to the idea of using bikes as the best mode of transportation for short trips and to integrate commercial with urban zones to give easier access to the daily needs of people (food, drinks etc) the culture of bike use emerged and anchored itself into society. This doesn't mean that many options of improving infrastructure are unusable outside that culture. It is however a point that needs to be taken into account implementing and pushing these changes. Education is important but also the social aspect, when you have a more socially aware culture where the goal is to improve as much for a large group of people instead of serving the goal of the few who are able and have the means to do so, expectation will not be met and projects will be cancelled simply due lack of willingness to put effort into changing behaviour. In a culture where individualism is highly appreciated the role of the community will be less appreciated.

People from the usa are proud on there second ammendment, we dutchies are proud of our cycling infrastructure. Good presentation, lets promote this world wide!

I know where The Netherlands are. But Where is Bend?

Police have legal immunity in the US but planners can get sued. INSANE!

I'm from the Netherlands and do almost everything by bicycle. I cycle to work about 7.5 miles from home on my long distance bicycle (not an e-bike) and do my shopping on my transporter bicycle which I also use to get into town. But I avoid some places in the center of the city of Utrecht where I live during rush hours because the roads do not allow the number of cyclists to flow properly there. It's a mad house sometimes. There are still far too many places like that in the cities. You also see in the video that dozens of cyclists have to wait to cross an intersection and block other paths and hinder other cyclists and pedestrians.

One interresting upside of these street reforms to reduce asphalt, is that while the renovation is more expensive than just fixing potholes, it reduces long term maintainance bills

I think this presentation is a bit older already; most traffic lights in Nijmegen have bike detectors now. In low traffic situations, bikes almost never have to stop unless at major intersections. Several traffic lights also respond to rain, letting cyclists wait even shorter when it rains.

wouldnt it make more sense to give the lower amount of traffic priority over the higher amount?

You can translate fietsen in biking

Biking to school? That will not happen in the US, at least for kids under 16, as parents would be sued for child neglect.

Why is it so difficult to make proper roads in the US?

wow never knew that a planner who works for a big firm can be so manipulative in order to get big orders in. Because it is all nice, his passion for bikes but in the end he is making money for a big consultancy firm. And NL is not car addicted country. I see a good mix on the use different type of transport and the willingness for it. A car addiction is propaganda as well just as thinking that we cycle all day all night . People can complain as much as they want about cars but it has it useful function in society, just like a bike has. Where bikes let's you connect with people and neighborhood and nature, cars gives freedom, ability to work further away from home, visit places that is hard to reach by other means of transport, it lets you move big objects, being mobile while being phsyically much less mobile, etc etc. In conclusion never let one of the 2 dominate the other. It always must be a good mix, And in NL we are slowly moving to the wrong direction where the car is being driven out of the city, to make it as unpleasant as possible and very expensive. You will probably not have that issue so much in the US. Also I saw in Not Just Bikes channel that housing zoning is important as well. Where in US , CAN cities you are not allowed to have supermarkets in living area's. The supermarkets for example have their own zoning and they are put outside the neighborhood. How to get there? by car as it is to far away. In Europe we have much more (small) shops close/in the neighborhoods where it is almost useless to use a car. You could literally walk to the supermarket. Only big shops are outside the neighborhood in industrial zoning.

I don't know how I ended up here but this was a really nice talk! Thanks :D

52:30 - people with a car spend more money than people on a bike

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