A Dutch Bike Quest with Mike West (Podcast)
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- Опубликовано: 28 мар 2024
- In this episode, I talk with Mike West about his quest to import proven Dutch sustainable safety mobility design concepts into his home state of Utah. Mike is a city planner working for Lehi, UT, while living in the planned community of Daybreak in South Jordan, UT, which features an impressive network of off-street pathways.
Themes: Moving beyond car dependency, the empowerment of e-assist cargo bikes, new urbanist planned communities, the city of Houten in the Utrecht area.
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Hi Everyone! My name is John Simmerman, and I’m a health promotion and public health professional with over 30 years of experience. Over the years, my area of concentration has evolved into a specialization in how the built environment influences human behavior related to active living and especially active mobility.
Since 2010, I've been exploring, documenting, and profiling established, emerging, and aspiring Active Towns wherever they might be while striving to produce high-quality multimedia content to help inspire the creation of more safe and inviting, environments that promote a "Culture of Activity" for "All Ages & Abilities."
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Creative Commons License: Attributions, Non-Commercial, No Derivatives, 2024
I live in Amsterdam . I am riding always with my bike to my work. It’s 10 kilometers and I’m passing only 2 stoplights. The rest is a save bike lane.
Interesting concepts for improving the safety of streets. Still the best improvement is slower speeds and protected lanes.
Impressive what your guests accomplice, John, and impressive the number of interesting guests you get, and the way you assist them in informing and enlightening us.
Keep up the good work...like you said we didnt get here in a decade and still we are adjusting traffic is an ever changing thing...in the Netherlands now the number of deadly cycle accidents has gone up for the first time since the 70's...the problem is the huge amount of elderly people on way to fast electric bicycles...so now they have to do something and it is probably going to be something like an obligation to wear a helmet on an electric bike...
Great talk! Too bad that we need to take "baby steps" here in North America, but it's great to see so many places moving in the right direction. 😊
It's a lot easier to make a wide road narrower than the reverse.
Nice to see 2 Americans talking about biking in the Netherlands and how it could be in the States in the future. Sure it is possible,....1 of the things you often hear is that the NL is so flat and that's the reason why we have so many bikes.
Love it!!
'cul-de-sac through laneways' yes please.
This kind off building a new town is already started a long time ago in the Netherlands!I live in Almere (near Amsterdam!)and the first houses and roads are already build this way in the seventies!!
I wish I could make a rendering like the ones shown toward the end to show to my city council/engineers.
They have little reflective bumps between car lanes, but I've never seen them between the car and bike lanes. There should be the same tactile notice that the car is leaving the lane on that as well.
As the topic was raised a couple of times, I was reminded of a joke:
NL guy here, watching these video's from time to time as well as some other channels on infrastructure.
Remember...you can have rhe most beautiful bike lanes but that isn't a guarantee for safe roads...it is also about changing the car drivers attitude....the dutch did it by making cars yield to bicycles within city limits... unless indicated otherwise...so...when hitting a bicycle your car insurance goes up...the best way to change the Dutch their behaviour is through their wallet...
The US will outpace the Netherlands soon on bike infrastructure.