What can Seattle learn from Dutch street design?
UniversityGreenways3 HN recommenders · recommended in 7 months, 2014-2021
328K views · 13 years ago · talk · evergreen
Seattle landscape architect Fred Young gives an hour-long visual tour of Dutch cycling infrastructure, covering design details, continuous networks and how cycling fits daily life in the Netherlands.
HN recommends it as an in-depth tech talk for urban planning, full of small design touches that make cycling safer.
6:30How the Dutch got their cycle paths
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2:22Intersection design, the Dutch - cycle friendly - way
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4:01Dutch junction design - safer for cyclists
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5:10Junction design in the Netherlands
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6:17Why Cars Rarely Crash into Buildings in the Netherlands
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13:11Utrecht: Planning for People & Bikes, Not for Cars
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5:12Traffic Calming is Everywhere in the Netherlands
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23:01Safe Cycling Showdown - Good vs. Bad City Design - Plus 1 Minus 2
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3:45The Dutch Solution for Safer Sidewalks - Continuous Sidewalks
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5:21The Best Kind of Dutch Cycling Infrastructure
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25:05The Best-Designed Town in the Netherlands (and therefore, the world)
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2:00Bicycle Rush Hour Utrecht (Netherlands)
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3:26How Highways Almost Destroyed Amsterdam - Plan Jokinen
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15:48The Best Country in the World for Drivers
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4:01Who else benefits from the Dutch cycling infrastructure
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9:04Unbelievably busy bicycle crossing in Amsterdam
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10:37Why Dutch Bikes are Better (and why you should want one)
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18:14Stroads are Ugly, Expensive, and Dangerous (and they're everywhere) [ST05]
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31:25Crossing the Street Shouldn't Be Deadly (but it is)
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10:35Why the Dutch Wait Less at Traffic Lights
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8 comments from Hacker News
Similar video (but then an hour long) that I always post together with that channel: What can Seattle learn from Dutch street design? ▶ this video
This article might just as well have been about the Netherlands, so for those interested in this, you might also like this lecture discussing the many small measures taken in Dutch infrastructure to make cycling a safe and pleasant experience: What can Seattle learn from Dutch street design? [1] It helped me find out that apparently I'm a public infrastructure geek. [1] ▶ this video
Relevant: what Seattle can learn from Dutch street design: ▶ this video A presentation with a ton of examples of small infrastructural touches that make it safer to cycle in the Netherlands.
For those interested in this, I can highly recommend "What Seattle can learn from Dutch street design" [1]. It's a presentation that gives an overview of all sorts of small infrastructural measures, similar to the Queens Boulervard redesign, taken in the Netherlands to prevent traffic deaths. What makes it especially interesting is that e.g. rather than reducing the speed limit, cars are nudged to slow down through using different material for the road, or by simply making the road less wide. [1] ▶ this video
OP makes some good points but should go on vacation in the Netherlands. Way ahead in road safety. For example: link Or more extensively: ▶ this video
For a pretty thorough description of how The Netherlands achieves safe biking, see this video: ▶ this video "Fred Young, a Landscape Architect based in Seattle, led us through a visual tour of Dutch cycling infrastructure, share insights of the transportation experts he met and show how cycling is a part of daily life in the Netherlands."
This is an overview of how the Dutch do it as presented by a city planning guy from Seattle. Lengthy, but I was glued to the screen. ▶ this video
Here's a great talk[1] about all the clever bike infrastructure in the Netherlands, and how it can be adapted to work in Seattle specifically. It's a great in depth look for anyone interested in this stuff, basically a tech talk for urban planning. Edit: Here's a similar talk[2] I just found talking about adopting Dutch traffic planning to work in Vancouver. [1] ▶ this video [2] link