UTRECHT: De Filmende Fietser shows me a brand new car-free/car-lite neighborhood (Part Two)
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- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2024
- In this episode, I reconnect for Part Two of my ride-along video and on-bike interview with Geert van der Wilt, aka @defilmendefietser, where we'll check out several street transformations (recent and forthcoming) that he's monitoring, as well as a couple of impressive car-lite, nearly car-free neighborhoods being developed.
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Thanks for the tour of Utrecht. Good to see the area.
Thanks so much for tuning in for the Premiere!
Most important: A beautiful place is also often a safe place to be
Indeed! 🙌
58:00 That highway deck is very much highway infrastructure. The A2 highway from Amsterdam to Maastricht, also known as the 'artery of the Netherlands' , was to be widened to 2x5 lanes. But because of the proximity of Leidsche Rijn and planned house construction, this was only allowed with a roof , to minimize the extra sound and nois pollution.
The Leidsche Rijntunnel was initially budgetted at €112 mln , but ended up to cost a whopping €1 billion ! !
With the green space on top and the extra housing between the A2 and the Amsterdam Rijnkanaal, connecting Leidsche Rijn with the old city, it was very useful . Similar with the 2-layered Willem Alexandertunnel in Maastricht . (Unlike with Katy Freeway no residents were evicted from their homes !).
Thanks for the insights!
If you visit Rotterdam again, you might visit the Dakpark ('roofpark'). On a former railway yard in the Rotterdam West harbour the city wanted to build a shopping mall strip. But the residents in the old neighourhood wanted more green space, which the hood lacked.
The solution was to build the mall with on top a sloping green roof with fountains, a hot house garden , a roof garden and a lunch room space ! Just fabulous.
(you might combine it with a trip thru the Maastunnel bike path. In Art Deco style opened in 1941 during WW2 ! )
Another example of stunning double use functions is the dune project in Katwijk aan Zee (near Leiden). Climate change and heavier storms gave the need for higher dunes. But the locals wanted to keep a panoramic view on the sea. The solution was to build , inside the dunes, several underground parking garages, which would relief to parking by beach tourists. And the garage parking double as a storm barrier !
Most stupid decision ever. For that money (well double it and add a bit more) you can make a Noord-Zuid metroline. Imagine, a metro in Utrecht that'd be so much better than doubling down on trying to be the best cycling city.. It's already a mess with cars all around Utrecht. Only a metro can solve problems that will appear in the future, with Nieuwegein and other areas massively increasing the urban/densily populated area around Utrecht
By building that tunnel the highway moved about 100 meters to the west. The old highway was next to the wide canal, together forming a huge gap and barrier between city and new to build suburb. By moving highway a bit to the west some extra space between (new) highway and canal was created to build a block of residential and office buildings. As highway is in a tunnel now the canal is now the only barrier. That Zigzag ramp is were the old highway was located.
@@letheas6175 guess you don't live there. The issue is/was way more complex the other villages kind of demanded part of it and also to build the big maxima park. Also it was planned at 450m not 112m (that was without most of the tunnel). Lastly the total cost of A2 changes (utrecht) was 2.5B. Guess what, roads cost a lot of money even more so if its a important one like the A1 (cost 2000-2020). I think the 500M over first planning is fine the solution was way more complete and enabled a nice integration between 2 city parts.
I think indoor bicycle parking for residential buildings is a national regulation, at least for apartment buildings.
Cool! That makes sense.
For new apartments... (and gardenshed for new houses) That's why there's often a lot of bicycles in the old city centres, it wasn't a rule when those apartments and houses were build 😅
@@AnD-1999a lot of older 30, 40 to 50 year old apartment buildings have bike parking spots in the underground garage or somewhere else.
Yay!
I hope you had a chance to watch the video. 😀
@@ActiveTowns Yeah, I stuck around for it - I was excited!
Cool! Thanks so much
Life with fewer cars is so much nicer...I want that so badly...lol.
Indeed! 😀
Just as many/more cars. But less cars driving small trips.
@@AnD-1999yes and no, depends where you live in the country. Where i live in Ede most people drive their car anywhere, for grocery hauling, going to downtown to shop or eat, etc.
@29:02 the women coming from the opposite direction has no intention of stopping at all. Probably because she is totally unaware that she should. Sadly this is common practice in many cities in The Netherlands. Kudos for you guys showing how it should be done.
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Probably an expat/immigrant. 😅
Around 4:00 Maliebaan, the oldest fietspad of The Netherlands. There are a few maliebaan area’s left in our country. These are very old sporting grounds for the elite, a kind of medieval course to play an ancient ball game.
Makes me wonder how many of the original cycle paths in North America exist.
@@ActiveTowns A very good question. I am no expert in this field, but my hunch is that in the Netherlands there are experts in the field of bicycle history in the 19th century. LIkewise in the UK, where the bicycle history dates back even further!
@@reneolthof6811 Yeah, that makes sense.