Tag: netherlands
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Watch: Why cars rarely crash into buildings in the Netherlands
With all the discussion recently about how people crash a car or truck into a Seattle building about twice a week, a commenter reminded me of a Not Just Bikes video from a couple years ago about why this rarely happens in the Netherlands:
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On building safe streets like the Dutch
At some point during Fred Young’s presentation on Dutch cycling infrastructure and safe street designs, the mood of the crowd packed into Wallingford’s Mosaic Coffee shifted from wonder to depression: Seattle has such a long way to go, it can be overwhelming. But, having already gone through that depression phase some time ago, I got…
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Bike incident press from Bizarro World … I mean the Netherlands
Streetsfilms posted this video, which clearly leaked through a dimension split of some kind. It comes from a parallel universe where a moment of reckless driving that almost seriously injures some cyclists spurs public outrage and a series of angry opinions from the local media condemning the potentially harmful act. The driver’s license is suspended,…
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