His comment about not converting every block but building several good ones is so true. It’s also how it works in Amsterdam. Some parts are more dedicated to cars, other parts have the emphasis on bikes.

Mark knows best.

What's fascinating about this is you talk to almost anyone in America, and they say, "Oh, this country is too big and spread out for bike lanes," or some variation of, "Americans just love their suburbs and single family homes." Yet, NYC, one of the densest and most developed cities in the world, still can't do bike lanes and is completely car infested. Clearly, this isn't just a "too spread out problem."

@AB-wf8ek

26 күн бұрын

80% of the US population lives in areas with a density of 1000 people/sqml or more, and most trips people take in areas like this are within 3 miles. The fact that the US is a big country is a poor excuse to have good bike & pedestrian infrastructure in cities.

I’m embarrassed for Mark. Coming from the Netherlands this must be tough to see

@StreetfilmsCommunity

2 ай бұрын

Well it is good for us. We need these things to be better. But in all fairness, much of what I showed him over 20 miles he liked quite a bit. Our NYC DOT has done some very good things and some things that have failed. We just need to make better the ones that don't do as well and get them up to Dutch standards!

@BicycleDutch

2 ай бұрын

Ha, much of what I saw was quite okay in general (as stated in the video description), but Clarence saved the worst for last and then showed my comments to that first! Very clever! ;-) I promise that I will show other, much better stuff, soon.

@atavanH

2 ай бұрын

@@BicycleDutch looking forward to that video Mark! Come to Portland sometime if you haven’t yet 😊

@AB-wf8ek

26 күн бұрын

I'm glad to see videos like this living in a US city. How people treat bike lanes like parking space is shameful and should be called out more often.

That was an “adventurous” cycle track you showed there. 😃

Cars and other obstacles in the bike lanes is more common than rats in NYC

I'm so sick and tired of the entitlement of drivers. They complain about cyclists riding in the middle of traffic while simultaneously completely disregarding their own space like they're second class citizens. And it's socially accepted because there's "not enough parking space." The double standard is infuriating. If you don't want cyclists interfering with cars, then stop interfering with bikes. All these cars and delivery trucks need to be hit with hefty fines. Strict enforcement is what needs to be done to prevent this. Just like how parking times are strictly enforced. Cyclists, listen up. Next time you see this, don't pass. Stay there and let the bike lanes clog up to show the country just how hypocritical drivers are.

@crowmob-yo6ry

2 ай бұрын

If the truck is for a business, go to the business website and send an email telling them to stop parking in bike lanes. Make sure to say you'll call the cops next time.

@vincenzodigrande2070

Ай бұрын

In Amsterdam by design most bike lanes are inaccessible to cars, that is a far better solution! Fines are always just a way to free pass rich and hit the poorer hard. Just do sidewalk, bike lane, buffer zone impossible to cross by car, parking, car lane. This also enables bus stops to not interfere with the cyclists.

@AB-wf8ek

26 күн бұрын

​@vincenzodigrande2070 Definitely, make cycling safe and attractive, and there will naturally be less cars on the roads. I'm sure delivery drivers would be ecstatic, and would probably make great allies for safe street advocates.

@gabetalks9275

26 күн бұрын

@@AB-wf8ek Lol, it's not gonna be that easy in the US. Driving being seen as proof of being well put together adult is so ingrained into American culture that it's literal first thing they ask for at job interviews. Not for your resume. Your driver's license. The only way to get Americans to accept supporting other modes of transit is to dismantle the narrative that transit and micromobility is just welfare for the poor.

Great to see these 2 champions of cycling issues get together. I wonder if there will ever be a special video that brings together Bicycle Dutch, Streetfilms, Not Just Bikes and Propel!

Everything in the USA is terrible according to internet users. I still have to agree we desperately need better cycling infrastructure though.

Now I don't live there and there's certainly obstacles and some chaos with these lanes, but these are at least clearly marked and colored bike lanes which were not there 20 years ago. Where I live, there's less traffic, with fewer people and cars, but any bike lanes you run into are never colored, almost never marked (at the most a rare sign, never ongoing) and constitute the barest minimum, token effort.

¡Feliz día internacional de las personas ciclistas!

@crowmob-yo6ry

2 ай бұрын

Speak English!

@texabara

2 ай бұрын

@@crowmob-yo6ry No

@erik5374

2 ай бұрын

Gracias

@texabara

Ай бұрын

@@erik5374 ­¡Saludos!

"Greatest country in the world". Experienced the same over there - putholes and permanent temporary things.

@crowmob-yo6ry

2 ай бұрын

Please don't generalise an entire country.

If you are on a bike here it's bc you can't afford a car. That is simply how it is and how it's seen. You can't get anywhere on a bike and you often won't even find bike stands to attach your bike to. If it's still there when you come back is another issue. But there is all this talk about green energy, but this somehow doesn't apply to bikes.

Yup. They are terrible. We need better crosstown bike lanes. Especially a way to cross Central Park l

This time I think it’s both political will and lack of knowledge I think that because Mark doesn’t see any Dutch concepts of biking in NYC and the bike lanes are not what they could be

@StreetfilmsCommunity

2 ай бұрын

Actually we rode a few center-running median bike lanes he approved of. And also two different 2-way bike lanes. Neither of which are common standard practices from the Dutch or the Danes, and he saw how they could be beneficial in select areas.

I learned how to bicycle in the street in Brooklyn down Flatbush Avenue before there were ANY bicycle lanes or signs. Toughen up and stop complaining.

@Sosski

23 күн бұрын

You are lucky to be alive most of us don’t want to live everyday like it’s our last 💀

@darienmiller1032

11 күн бұрын

Dude, if you wanna die, go on ahead and do that, but don't ask people to risk their lives biking alongside drivers that don't give a fuck about who they hit.

@RobertoSiffredi-xy1nc

11 күн бұрын

@@darienmiller1032 Why don't you wash your mouth out with soap and learn how to bicycle defensively. I learned how to share Flatbush Avenue with 18-wheelers and lived. Sorry you need someone to hold your hand when you ride your tricycle on the sidewalk.

New York under Eric Adams. So disappointing. 🤦🏾‍♂️