Thank you for providing the excellent transcript - your writting is very compelling. "The inherent irony is glaring: bike lanes are fundamentally an extension of car infrastructure. They are conceived and implemented not out of a genuine desire to promote cycling, but as a perfunctory measure to integrate cyclists into an environment predominantly designed for cars. It is myopic to neglect the development of true bicycle infrastructure, as doing so ultimately perpetuates our reliance on cars and undermines the potential of safer, more sustainable urban mobility. True bike paths and traffic calmed streets are not just amenities - they are are necessities in our quest to create cities that prioritize people over vehicles." Time stamp 4:29 👌 I will be sharing that quote widely. Thank you.

@TheDailyFreedom

Ай бұрын

I accidently wrote fits frei instead of FIETS UITGEZONDERD zo of you want correct that and Ive also updated my designs since then it was just the perfect example for what I was talking about.

So awesome seeing a fellow young urbanist. It feels like we don't exist haha

@TheDailyFreedom

Ай бұрын

Every country seems to have its justifications for poor design decisions, and discussing them can often label you as unconventional.

As a Canadian living in a town made up of people from Dutch descent, i can say your english is better than most of my family, little hard to understand at times but i understood enough and your doing great! Love the video and the ideas regarding Cycling infrastructure being designed for cycling and not as an afterthought!

@TheDailyFreedom

Ай бұрын

I find it considerably more effortless to adopt either a Dutch or German accent, yet I earnestly endeavor to cultivate and maintain a British accent to the fullest extent possible.

@JustinJamesJeep

Ай бұрын

@@TheDailyFreedom That is of course understandable. You're doing great and I can't wait to see more video's, with any accent!

@TheDailyFreedom

Ай бұрын

@@JustinJamesJeep I am planning a lot and I am happy I have a small audience that actually cares about Urban Mobility.

Great video! Yeah by building safe bike infrastructure, we are accepting that cars are inherently dangerous. You might also imagine a solution where cars were regulated to the point where they no longer posed this risk, but this is not the case. I think the Dutch approach is the most realistic solution (separated safe infrastructure on major roads and heavily traffic calmed local streets). Just a note, the audio was only playing out of the Left channel (which is a bit weird to listen to). Not sure what editing software you use, but this is usually an easy fix. Keep it up!

@TheDailyFreedom

Ай бұрын

Maybe I putted the clips in the stereo and voice-over on mono in DaVinci Resolve accidentaly

I presume that many of us partake in watching 'Not Just Bikes' on KZread, do we not? I plan to make references to this channel in upcoming videos across various topics, so please stay tuned.

The goal is to provide options. The Dutch way of thinking is, pick any point A and any point B and you need a safe way to walk, cycle, take public transportation or drive to that location (or near enough). It is intended some roads are designed for cars, others for cyclists and others for walking. This as the goal never was and never will be to eliminate car traffic but rather focus it to the designated areas where people can park or drive safely. I cycle, I drive, take public transport and I walk as do most people here. Some trips are better to walk, others to cycle and others to drive and all modes of transport need support and this means less ideal solutions for cars in some ares or less ideal solutions for cyclists in others.

Wow this was really well done! Great work! I think it's important to keep in mind the practical obstacles of building true bike infrastructure in places with entrenched car culture. In the US, for example, there's a severe lack in political will to implement AAA bike infrastructure, hence why you see so many painted bike lanes. But sometimes painted bike lanes are a necessary first step to achieving better bike infrastructure later. Case and point: the city I live in, Seattle, has been slowly upgrading its network over time. Painted and buffered bike lanes have been upgraded with concrete barriers, traffic lights have been modified to give leading signals for cyclists, and residential streets have received calming treatments to slow down cars. All that to say, we can't let perfect be the enemy of good, and sometimes that means building a crappy bike lane today to get a better one tomorrow. Is it inefficient? Yes, but that's the reality of politics.

@TheDailyFreedom

Ай бұрын

@@LimitedWard Yes that’s right, painted bike gutters and crappy paths are always the start point of a city. I feel that is also one of the main reasons that most urban planners explore Copenhagen because it’s an easy step and has low cost.

My problem with the lack of dedicated paths where I live is, our city imposes narrow bike lanes on the road that are just the shoulder of the road being given a painted bicycle logo, often these "bike lanes" disappear and there is no shoulder on our roads, or sidewalks forcing users to have to ride with vehicles. If people want to ride with vehicles thats fine, but it shouldnt be forced upon everyone, many people ride bicycles that have slower reaction times possibly due to mental health problems, brain injury, etc. Also many parents with very very young children would like to ride as a family. You cant expect a 4 year old child to stay in a straight line at that age, forcing them onto the road or a narrow bike lane that is essentially still on the road is disgusting. And then even when sidewalks do exist I have heard of there being laws making it a punishable offence for cyclists to use sidewalks, even if they are barely going faster than pedestrians, not everyone thinks they are in the tour de France. This insinuates that even a 4 year old child should never ride their bicycle on a sidewalk, or someone with slower reaction time and or disabilities, forcing them to ride on the roadway alongside cars. My argument against all of that is simple, how often is a Cyclist and Motor Vehicle accident lethal vs how often is a Cyclist and Pedestrian collision lethal? I've never even heard of a serious enough Cyclist and Pedestrian collision to make the news in general, but I've heard of plenty of Cyclist and Car collisions, often resulting in either life threatening injuries or fatalities, obviously only to the Cyclist. The ones pushing for bike lanes alongside vehicles, imposing bans on bicycles on sidewalks, and generally saying "If you cant ride with traffic you shouldnt ride at all" are the gatekeepers known as "Roadies" as well as the new breed of cyclists, the E cyclists, who ride with traffic, cut people off, ignore actual rules of the road, and generally have made most drivers hate cyclists, and for good reason. I see roadies and E bikes all the time riding around traffic, cutting past on the shoulder when theres a stop sign and a lineup of traffic, and even moving over to the crosswalk to avoid stopping either at stop signs or lights. These users have soured the car driver communities feelings toward all cyclists, as well as created a stigma of forcing leisure cyclists to endure the intimidating risk of riding with vehicles as sidewalks are apparently off limits and bike lanes are a glorified shoulder where cars can and will still hit you. City cycling really seems to be for those who really dont mind risking their lives every ride, anyone with any sort of self preservation should be aloud to use sidewalks when available (provided you ride below a specific speed limit when pedestrians are visible and share the sidewalk pleasantly) and ride on specific road trail paths away from cars. I havent been fined yet, but I ride on sidewalks when I can and try to avoid riding with cars completely, I also much prefer the mountain trails, the scenery is better and theres no dangerous vehicles brushing your shoulder at ridiculous speeds.

@TheDailyFreedom

Ай бұрын

I suspect you live somewhere in North America? I totally understand what you are saying because my current city has a total of 4km of bike lanes most of them in random places and completely useless. Here no-one takes biking as a commute and when I tell most of them they just think I am joking or trying to be a hero.

@augmented2nd666

Ай бұрын

@@TheDailyFreedom Vancouver Island, BC, Canada. We have Bike lanes that and shoulders that just disappear, leaving cyclists literally no option but to ride with traffic or pick a different route if even possible. As a collective we need to normalize people riding on sidewalks with no penalties unless your speeding, impose a speed limit for sidewalk riding, yielding to pedestrians, and not forcing people to ride with big metal death machines. Cheers.

The video took 6 minutes to explain: Build bike lanes seperate from a road and put some grass and a tree inbetween. Then, if this is the model, why is there no reference to chinese cities that already showcase this? There, bike lanes are seperate from roads and there is a barrier inbetween, yet there is only mention of Amsterdam in this situation. Cities don't need to reimagine their cities for cyclists, they need to add more bike lanes to wide roads and create a strong barrier between them and cars. Why make it sound like everywhere is hopelessly car-centric, even decently cycle-centric countries like the Netherlands when the point of cyclist content is to encourage more cycling? It completely defeats logic and is pessimistic.

My tire goes flat 2-3 times out of 10 when I use these painted lanes because roads are designed to catch debrees to the edge where these designated bike lanes end up being. I much prefer the pedestrian aisles even though it's technically illegalized where I live. The easiest solution(not necessarily the best) would be moving those painted lanes into the center of the road, or, the more difficult & expensive but better solution is just expand the pedestrian lanes, and legalize them.

@TheDailyFreedom

Ай бұрын

An easy solution would be to intergrade it to the sidewalk with some red paint this way it should be clear to pedestrians that this is a bike lane and would also make the sidewalk more pleasant because it would seem bigger.

@mardiffv.8775

23 күн бұрын

Buy puncture resistance tires for your bike?

@TheDailyFreedom

23 күн бұрын

@@mardiffv.8775 Yea right! And once you reach an uphill you place a powerbank in your legs and they will cycle faster! 😂

Exclusive separated bike only paths are useful only for long trips and not for the last mile as it's very hard to disentangle "car", bike and pedestrian infrastructure on an urban environment as the same destination should be reached by people on foot, bike or wheelchair, public transport, delivery vehicles, utilities workers, etc. If you try to give every mode of transportation its own path you'll end up with lower walkability and bikeability as everything would be far apart as it happens with suburban land use in the USA

@Jeroen_van_den_Berg667

Ай бұрын

That is why he talked about traffic calming which allows for every mood to work seamlessly in safe speeds.

@TheDailyFreedom

Ай бұрын

@@Jeroen_van_den_Berg667 And smaller roads can decrease their car traffic in various ways to allow bikes cutting through while cars have to go the long way around and people living there still having access to parking. Examples of this method can be found in Freiburg.

@mardiffv.8775

23 күн бұрын

Dutch rural roads have sometimes bike suggestions lanes and the speed limit is lowerd from 80 to 50 kmh/ From 50 mph to 32 mph.

@TheDailyFreedom

23 күн бұрын

@@mardiffv.8775 There are lower speed limits you are right but they are from 50 to 30 not from 80 to 50 thank you for the provided information though.

great video... fwiw... the sound is only on the left channel... very weird...

@TheDailyFreedom

Ай бұрын

@@petersilva037 Yes I cannot really find the problem but I will do my best to fix it in the next video.

Have to disagree with the idea of cycle lanes necessarily being best for safety. Potential cycle lanes are there already, on the roads. The main reason we seek to separate drivers from cyclists is because one group poses a serious threat to the other & this is mainly because of the attitude of drivers, which is down to a culture of resentment & simple ignorance. Road junctions must inevitably be crossed by cyclists, what then? Rules & training must be developed to make drivers drive safely around cyclists.

@TheDailyFreedom

Ай бұрын

I see your concern about road junctions, and you're right that they are critical for cyclist safety. However, the video argues that true bike infrastructure, like that in most of the Netherlands, includes well-designed, separated routes and slow speed streets specifically for cyclists while there are also other designs that I did not already talked about. These designs minimize the risks at intersections, ensuring that cyclists can cross safely. While driver education is important, the focus should also be on creating dedicated cycling infrastructure because otherwise even with educated drivers, big roads would still fear people trying to cycle which would probably never reduce traffic anyways. For more context on how junctions and intersections can be made safer, please check out this video: [kzread.info/dash/bejne/eKB10sSxfN2coKQ.html].

I think I got most of her message, but I couldn't understand more than 2/3rds of her words. I think I was understanding more of it by the end though. A difficult accent.

@TheDailyFreedom

7 күн бұрын

Hallo Derek! Yes my natural accent is dutch or German but if I keep performing this accent I think it would be more understandable in 2 or 3 videos. Stay tuned I will soon unload more content and please inform me on how my accent is doing that time.

@derekjolly3680

7 күн бұрын

@@TheDailyFreedom Please don't let it make you self-conscious, Miss. You have a nice enough voice. We Americans often do not get much exposure to Central Europeans speaking with their accents. In my whole life I've only even visited actual Europe once in 1987 to West Germany for two weeks. Although twice to visit the Englanders.

This type of English is taking too many of my brain cells to understand >:/

@TheDailyFreedom

25 күн бұрын

My natural English dialect is Dutch so it takes me a lot of effort to speak British although I am slowly improving. Until then you can use the subtitles.

@adrian_zombturtle148

25 күн бұрын

@TheDailyFreedom oh ok that's what I did