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    How the Dutch got their cycle paths

    The Netherlands is well known for its excellent cycling infrastructure. How did the Dutch get this network of bicycle paths?

    Read more: http://hembrow.blogspot.com/2011/10/...r-cycling.html
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    Absolutely love at 0:18, I thought in Australia everything is well thought of but that part has outbeaten even Aussie land!
    That's indeed is something to be copied by others.
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    In 2010 a 640 people died in traffic. In 2009 720 lost their lives. When I was a child in the 1980s and 1990s some 1500 people died each year on the road and I considered that figure to be low when I was a teenager.

    Today, in 2012, I am unhappy with the fact that 640 had to die while being on the road. 14 of which being children. 14 is an unacceptable figure. That is 14 children that could be the new generation so we will need to find a way as a nation to strive to having under 500 deaths a year .. 0 of which children. I believe that we, in turn, can learn from the Norwegians: buses and trams should be equipped with safety belts. And passengers should no longer be allowed to stand so there need to be more buses on the road.

    Schools that are located alongside main roads should be moved to a woonerf. It will cost us a lot but lifes are important then euro's. For some of the other fatalities: there should be a mandatory first aid course for all drivers when they obtain their drivers licenses and a strictly enforced duty to rescue (like in France or Germany). Those over 65 should have mandatory tests and courses every other year or lose their license.
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    I like this suggestion of yours the most...

    there should be a mandatory first aid course for all drivers when they obtain their drivers licenses
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    I think that in some cities emergency phones should be placed alongside main roads where people drive over 70 km/s an hour and all along the national routes and if necessary in the countryside along every other two kilometres.




    But I think that we should look for a new model. One that is lit in the dark so it can be more easily spotted.

    I think I found it:



    They use this one on American campuses. My idea would be to paint it yellow and use black letters. Yellow and black are the traditional colors so..)

    Or one that is smaller and roofed over so it can double as a shelter. There should be an orange light on the top to make it visible during the night.
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    About cycle infrastructure in and around Amsterdam, with printable cycle routes in the city region. The videos give an impression of real cycling conditions in and around Amsterdam, and the type of cycle infrastructure. The cycle routes are cross sections of the urban region – they go about 15-20 km outside the centre, and then back again by a different route. All are printable: only the text of the blog post prints. Some of the videos are purely to illustrate a route.

    Cycle infrastructure and policy in the Netherlands plays an important role, for cycle lobbies in English-speaking countries. Perhaps the new activism is a reaction to the old ‘counter-cultural’ cycle activism there. In any case, activists tend to present a myth about cycling in the Netherlands. They exaggerate the extent of cycle infrastructure here, and the prevalence of cycling.

    This blog also covers some of these myths. The most striking claim is that cycle infrastructure is actually the cause of cycling, and that the Netherlands has succeeded in generating cycling by building cycle infrastructure. In fact experience in the Netherlands shows the opposite: massive expansion of cycle infrastructure has failed to alter cycling’s modal share, stable for years at 7% of passenger-km. Well-publicised local gains therefore imply that cycling is declining, elsewhere in the country.

    There is no evidence from the Netherlands that cycle infrastructure motivates people to cycle. Cycle activists outside the Netherlands seem blind to the obvious relationship: there is more cycle infrastructure here, because more people cycle – and not the other way round. It is easier to blame their government for not building cycle paths, than to face the reality, that in their country, almost no-one wants to cycle. Some seem to prefer campaigning for infrastructure, because they have a libertarian aversion to repressive measures against motorists. In any case, this blog is not intended as a platform for ‘culture wars’ among Anglophone cycle lobbies. Comments are open again, but mainly to allow users to correct errors in the cycle route descriptions.



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