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"If there’s such a thing as “bike parking porn,” the Netherlands seems to
inspire the bulk of it. On YouTube, fans of cycling infrastructure can marvel
at a broad selection of video tours through cavernous bike garages in places
like Rotterdam, Amsterdam and especially Utrecht, a city of 362,000 whose train
station provides spots for 22,000 bicycles, the largest such facility in the
world.
These monumental garages have become integral to the Dutch transportation
network: Over 400,000 people — more than 40% of all train passengers — bike to
a station every weekday.
In the US, no Amtrak train station offers bike parking that remotely resembles
what Dutch travelers now take for granted. Americans cycling to a station can
either try to squeeze their bike onboard or chain it to an outdoor rack and
hope for the best. Only a few regional rail networks, like the Bay Area’s BART
and Portland’s TriMet, offer a limited amount of secure storage for bikes.
Building these eye-popping facilities in Dutch cities required years of careful
planning inspired by the profit motive as well as lofty aspirations to enliven
public space and reduce car trips. Other countries — including the US — could
learn a thing or two by studying how the Dutch pulled it off, and why."
Via Esther Schindler.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
