This fantastic video about cycling in Amsterdam vs Copenhagen perfectly matches my personal experience in both cities and I buy into the achievability hypothesis to explain Copenhagen’s popularityhttps://twitter.com/notjustbikes/status/1242014220297949188 …
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Dutch roads provide clarity of purpose whereas British roads often send dangerous mixed messages https://robertweetman.wordpress.com/2018/11/13/design-details-1/ …
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And a great overview of the differences between the design of a typical Dutch and British/Anglosaxon street https://robertweetman.wordpress.com/2019/03/19/i-want-my-street-to-be-like-this/ …https://vimeo.com/325248700
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Continuous Footway Quality Checklisthttps://robertweetman.wordpress.com/2019/10/01/design-details-2/ …
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“What nobody told me about urban design in the Netherlands” - No chaos - It’s beautiful - Continuous footways - The place is incredibly social - Residential roads are residential - Local shops in local town centres - Even country roads are filtered https://robertweetman.wordpress.com/2017/10/12/what-nobody-told-me-1/ …
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“People tend to look at images of ‘the Dutch’ doing amazing things on their bikes and make conclusions about their skill. I look at ‘the Dutch’ doing amazing things on their bikes and make conclusions about the urban design.” https://robertweetman.wordpress.com/2017/10/12/what-nobody-told-me-1/ …
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“The closest analogy I can think of – in terms of the experience of visiting the Netherlands for the first time – involves a person who spends their whole life standing in a cloud of flies” https://robertweetman.wordpress.com/2017/10/12/what-nobody-told-me-1/ …pic.twitter.com/joBabNQfoL
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“The places I now love aren’t so much pro-cycling as pro-human. They treat their citizens as people, with a rightful place on the street, not as animals to be herded”https://robertweetman.wordpress.com/2017/09/04/fallingoutoflove/ …
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“In these cities I have a full right to be on the street whether I’m on foot, on a bike, or just standing on a street chatting. You have policies and pronouncements which say that you see the world that way. But these are just words”https://robertweetman.wordpress.com/2017/09/04/fallingoutoflove/ …
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This video comparing American vs Dutch intersections is spot onhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlApbxLz6pA …
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“My personal favourite: Little bike drawings are put on the road. To indicate… the existence of bikes? Come on, London — you can’t just draw a bike somewhere and expect people to seriously call that a bike lane. It takes more effort than that!” https://ssj3gohan.tweakblogs.net/blog/11985/city-cycling-in-london-is-a-joke …
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What fresh hell is this?https://twitter.com/RossiTheBossi/status/1249248566293430272 …
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The Stupid Bicycle Bridges of Copenhagen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McvZ68qlho4 …
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