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What can Seattle learn from Dutch street design?

UniversityGreenways3 HN recommenders · recommended in 7 months, 2014-2021
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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.

Transit, cities & urban planning#bikelanes#urbanplanning#netherlands#streetdesign#roadsafety

8 comments from Hacker News

@Vinnl2021 · in “The Stroad”

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

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@Vinnl2019 · in “What We Can and Can’t Learn from Copenhagen”

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

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@Vinnl2018 · in “How the Dutch created a casual biking culture”

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.

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@Vinnl2018 · in “New York’s success provides road map for others taking aim at pedestrian deaths”

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

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@raarts2017 · in “Do We Overvalue Bike Lanes?”

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

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@raarts2016 · in “The Dutch Reach: Clever Workaround to Keep Cyclists from Getting “Doored””

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."

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@raarts2016 · in “Guerrilla Bike Lanes in San Francisco”

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

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@narwally2014 · in “A New Bike Lane That Could Save Lives and Make Cycling More Popular”

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

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