I'm from Belgium Europe, next to the Netherlands. It always shocks me to see how little there is done for bikers in America. I bike 10 miles a day and never needed to go to a fitness or anything. Just by commuting. Not to mention all the money I've saved to spend on things that really matters.

This was 4 years ago. Has anything in boston changed?

I live in a city in California where most people have to drive an hour or two to go to work. I drive an hour and a half to go to the University. I happen to work very close to home (about a mile) and have been driving this whole time. The shopping center is in this area and still i drive. I have lived in cities where biking is a main mode of transportation (Santa Cruz and Capitola) and wish there was better infrastructure in my current city. I have prepared my bicycle for my next day of work and shopping. If im not drving to school i will ride my bike locally. I hope that many will follow since most of the trips made out of the house are within an easy bike ride. I have seen many people on bikes here but without the infrastructure it makes travel a lot harder. I am one of those cyclists that will ride in the road with cars so maybe it's time I start a movement here. Wish me luck.

@zoltanknagy

2 жыл бұрын

Good luck!! :)

I'm glad he used the word kilometres around 13 min. into his talk.

I was startled that Germany was so well off. As a daily commuter in the area of Mannheim (where the bike was invented) it does not feel so. Most do not see this as a step forward. I embrace your talk.

@jayturner5242

7 жыл бұрын

Netherlands is not Germany

@LasseGreiner

7 жыл бұрын

Yes but the point is lost on me...

@FarfettilLejl

4 жыл бұрын

@@LasseGreiner I don't even understand what you were trying to say in your first comment

@LasseGreiner

4 жыл бұрын

@@FarfettilLejl in my experience Germany is underdeveloped in view of bike infrastructure. So I cannot understand the praise for Germany.

YES. When I am Prime Minister, I want you on my team. Because I am all about this.

You need dedicated bike lanes , seperate from cars doing more than 30m/hour,mix with cars doing 20m/hour or less.bime lanes need to be 1.5mtr wide singlelane,restrict car access to city centre

Salt lake has a great map to show bike trails and the roadways that are safe to bike. Also shows the train stations. We do have the same prob with trails not connecting. I’m optimistic it will become so much better and the air quality may get better too. Salt Lake City has horrendous air in winter

14.30: It is gonna cost a lot. In the explanation after that he forgets a very important thing: The revenue of lower traffic congestion! Imagine that if the 'build it and they will come' phrase also works for commuter cycling in the Boston area, or in the US cities in general, the traffic congestion in the cities will drop sharply. The same we have had here in the Netherlands. I know the Dutch have a cycle culture for decades, along with the Danes. So to get the people back on the bike when the 'cycling revolution' started in the mid-1970's was very easy.... The cycling revolution was sparked off by the Stop de kindermoord (Stop the child murder) campaign in 1971, due to the 400+ children younger than 15 on bike or as pedestrian killed in traffic that year. The campaign got help from the 1973 oil crisis, so the time was perfect to change the transport policy. Watch this video: 'How the Dutch got their cyclepaths', of BicycleDutch. Video is English spoken. It explains the whole story.

@pengyuli83

7 жыл бұрын

Marc van der wee it may not be said this way. Additional bike lanes require space from existing traffic lanes as well as sidewalks probably. Due to highly developed road networks in Boston, they might spend a lot of investment and reduce part of the lanes. Regardless of the construction that would take a long time, it is better not to say anything about lowering congestion before having a promising modeling plan.

@TheXerxes249

5 жыл бұрын

@@pengyuli83 Bikers take less space than the same amount of people in cars. Come to the Netherlands and see for yourself

@pengyuli83

5 жыл бұрын

Xerxes249 I totally agree with your point. My home country China probably has even more bikers than the EU combined. My intent was to say we are not quite sure if adding bike lanes will reduce vehicle travels by a certain percentage. People who commute everyday already have their cars. Are they just gonna leave them in their garages? What if on a rainy/snowy/windy and cold day (which are common in Boston) most of them decide to just drive on roads but only to find that some vehicle lanes are reduced so roads gets even more congested than before. I was just saying it’s not that simple.

@FarfettilLejl

4 жыл бұрын

@@pengyuli83 You're focusing on the short term inconveniences instead of the long-term benefits. It's called an investment

Here in Michigan we pay 40 dollars for a full year's access to all our metro parks. very worth it.

The Frustrating thing about this plan is that it completely neglects Roslindale, Hyde Park, and Mattapan. There is space along the two rail lines that split off at Forest Hills to create a greenway to extend to Roslindale Village along the western split (through the arboretum and then along the MBTA ROW), and a greenway/neighborhway hybrid all the way to Hyde Park and the Neponsit River greenway along the eastern split. Plus Cummins hwy is a candidate for a road diet between Mattapan Square and Hyde Park Ave - so there might be space for a two-way cycletrack there. And he's missing the Fairmount Greenway project.

@allardfreichmann3733

7 жыл бұрын

And what is your contribution since then?

Many years ago I used to ride from Watertown into Cambridge along the Charles river, but every bridge across the river also crossed the path and there wasn't any signaling for bicycles. After being hit by a couple of cars jumping a green light, I ended up taking the roads in and avoiding the path. It was shorter and I could see the signals. Have things changed?

I like the lift ticket comparison - 60 bucks for a day of downhill ski trails versus 20 bucks for a year of urban trails

long term, great investment

People like this guy never tell you that bike ridership in Northern Europe is not as high as it is because they hate cars, and love bikes. They have severe economic penalties for driving, between high taxes on gasoline, a fee to drive in cities, high parking costs, and other fees. I ride myself, and recognize that American cities are designed for cars, while cycling and walking are hindered by planning practices. America started off with irregular streets and roads, then later it embraced the grid. It wasn't until the 20th century that it made the dead end subdivision the preferred model for residential developments. That layout is the kiss of death for walkers and cyclists because neighborhoods no longer have a back way out. In fact, many have only one street to get into and out of. Everyone is forced to take the major thoroughfare to go anywhere outside of the subdivision. It is insane. Every one of those subdivisions is a giant obstruction to anyone who is trying to get across town and avoid taking arterials. I can't think of any single planning idea that hurts cycling and walking as much as that one.

@educationalvideos4151

5 жыл бұрын

Great point. I take for granted that I live in an area without much of that planning style. Biking in/around Boston is messy but at least I can piece together clever side street routes and shortcuts and stuff. If I had to rely on major arteries I'd lose all interest in biking.

@TimpBizkit

3 жыл бұрын

It's usually done to discourage streams of cars from driving through peaceful housing areas to "shortcut" though it would be useful if there could be connected roads with bollards to let cyclists through (and possibly motorcycles and scooters)

@deezynar

3 жыл бұрын

@@TimpBizkit Grid planning allows cars to shortcut through residential areas. It is usually not a problem. It is certainly not the problem that planners make it out to be.

Taking $20 from that road spending will have no real affect on the overall budget for roads only as it's only 3.3%, changing the walking and biking spending to $20, would have a major effect as that would be a 1233% increase. Just imagine what could be done with 1000 times the spending that you have now on walking and cycling. Let's also not forget that the more people that choose to walk or bike, that's less people being forced to drive which means that there wouldn't have to be as much spent on roads to begin with.

The first strategy for changing how we achieve movement about our cities is finding ways to get people out of cars. The entire issue is "How do we make this easier for cars?" when it should be "How do we make this harder for cars?"

bicycle bicycle i want to ride my bicycle i want to ride my bike i want to ride my bicycle i want to rideit where i liiiiiiike

I live 4 miles from work, but it's to dangerous for me to commute by bike. I'd ride every day if it were safer. But there are no plans for a dedicated bike lane, and no one wants to talk about it.

Priority efficiency

Talk about money. How much do people spend on cars? Loan, gas, parking? Redistribute that from a couple big companies that employ robot assembly lines, into local business. All these millions it'll take, between the millions of people, who can shift multi millions back to the cities through existing taxes on goods or services.

With freaking huge trucks are

0.7% bike commuters, 0.7% home to work connection? interesting

@Lunavii_Cellest

3 жыл бұрын

Thats just a coincidence

Not a bad idea, dr. Fürth. But you seem to forget that a lot of people can work at home, through the Internet. So in the future you won't need need roads or cycle-paths. I used to work at 10 kms from my office. Cycled along a main canal in NL. Great! But being an Oracle-DBA, I also worked a lot from home, logging in through a safe connection on the main systems at the office. Saved me a lot of time and was able to control everything 24/7, if desired. Greetz from NL and keep up the good work.

Cars are stupid.:s

This is why I can never live in North America.

This is not about calories. Driving bikes won't help anyone as long as your diet is sh*tty. So please stop preading this "calory lie".