One bike every second at the world's largest bicycle parking garage

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BicycleDutch

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@CoenFierst 4 ай бұрын

Traffic flowing without lights. No traffic jam in sight. Scaling down vehicle size and speed makes all the difference.

@therealcaldini 4 ай бұрын

Tosser on 35mph electric bike: hold my beer

@JeffBilkins 4 ай бұрын

for fun let's imagine a car parking garage for 12,500 people.

@silver_bowling 4 ай бұрын

the new rental car garage at LAX can hold about 20k cars, it's footprint is about as big as this entire rail station, including the platforms. it's ridiculously massive

@nicthedoor 4 ай бұрын

Sounds expensive

@markusmencke8059 4 ай бұрын

Just going by the footprint of a bike and a car, that amounts to insane land use… a bike needs about 2x1 meters, a car 5x2.5 (and more in some countries with supersized cars, like the USA) Add in the lanes, ramps and other infrastructure required (about 80% on top of the required parking space, iirc), and you end up with something in the range of several hectares of ground (depending how many levels you are permitted to build). And with those two-storey bike racks used in modern bike garages (basically halving the footprint of the bikes), the difference grows to even more insane levels…

@nlzaaf 4 ай бұрын

Indeed. And now imagine the same number of cars per minute…

@pedalandtringtring 4 ай бұрын

Disastrous

@recstoppauseplay 4 ай бұрын

Utrecht can be proud of this wonderful accomplishment - the rest of us can look on with respect and some envy. Let's wish careful and considerate foresight to municipal, provincial, state and federal government employees everywhere and let us all see a diminishing need for our destructive car culture.

@fatimaSM236 4 ай бұрын

I don't agree with you. Not just some envy, a lotttt.😢

@MerlinDerMagier 3 ай бұрын

I could watch this all day. Pure efficiency.

@driewiel 4 ай бұрын

There must be a queen cyclist inside.

@Michiel_de_Jong 4 ай бұрын

One would say so,.. looking at the way the cyclist beehave.

@GirtonOramsay 3 ай бұрын

I remember walking down this pathway to get my bike from the garage and was quite a sight to behold as an American. It was astounding how it didn't seem very crowded with the general lack of car noises that you would expect crossing a highway.

@Sampardhanani 4 ай бұрын

Beautiful…. Such a positive environment… a symbiosis of joyful faces.

@mrcarlotje 4 ай бұрын

Some people think when they see a 12 lane highway driving into a large city: "Wow, this is how the developed world looks like !".

@Cericle 4 ай бұрын

I wish my city had a sensible cyclist infrastructure

@dutchman7623 4 ай бұрын

It doesn't drop down from the sky, people have to lobby for it, fight for it, achieve it. So get involved in municipal politics and do what we did, create what is needed.

@MemTfs 4 ай бұрын

@@dutchman7623it's a hard battle to fight. Do you have any advice or could you point to any resources that describe what has been most effective in the Netherlands?

@09conrado 4 ай бұрын

@@MemTfsBuilding The Cycling City, a book by Melissa and Chris Bruntlett. Check out their website and their other book as well

@dutchman7623 4 ай бұрын

@@MemTfs From the beginning of private mobility we had the organization ANWB who worked for better roads, signs, and all other infra. Though for all road users, by the 1960's car owners had taken over and bicyclists had much less influence. Early 1970's action groups were formed to protest against the increase of deaths among playing children and cyclists. But screaming and shouting doesn't help. In 1975 the ENFB was founded. An organization especially for bicycle users. Not only by people with a loud voice, and prepared to take action, but also by specialists in safe road design. At every municipal plan they checked whether it could be done better and safer, at the same costs. So at council meetings they put their plans on the table. Also published them by journalists in the local paper. Sometimes pressure was needed, but soon every municipality consulted the ENFB because of their knowledge. When disregarded, after an accident, the municipality had to explain why they had not listened to those experts. The guidelines of the ENFB became national standard for road design, and part of the education of traffic engineers. And you do not need a specialist in every village, just send a photocopy of a local design across the country and you'll get advise on what is wrong, what can be done better and which consequences there are. So get organized!

@papaya8634 4 ай бұрын

I like your choice of music

@zarxog 4 ай бұрын

We went there this summer. What a bike city! But still, too many cars! (not kidding)

@raphael5165 4 ай бұрын

*Il semble que ce parking fasse partie intégrante de la ville. C'est beau a voir.*

@GreenJimll 4 ай бұрын

Some of these people have much better balance than I do as they seem happy and capable of riding in a busy urban space without their hands on the handlebars. If I did that I'd last about five seconds before ploughing into someone else or wrapping myself around one of those grey lamp posts. Also what does the "0 + 1" and "-1" mean with the arrows on the entrance?

@PropagandasaurusRex 4 ай бұрын

They indicate the floors of the parking. First floor in US is ground floor/0 in NL, so +1 is second floor and -1 is the basement.

@bramvanduijn8086 4 ай бұрын

Balancing a bike without hands requires a straight frame, straight wheels, just the right angle between your front steering axis and the ground, and the correct weight balance between the parts of your bike behind the steering axis and in front of the steering axis. Adding weight to the front will throw off your balance much faster than adding weight to the back.

@steemlenn8797 4 ай бұрын

@@bramvanduijn8086 It also requires experience.

@k20nutz 4 ай бұрын

It's not that hard, i taught myself to ride no hands at 35

@HweolRidda 4 ай бұрын

@@bramvanduijn8086No hands also requires a reasonably flat surface under the bicycle. So on a bike path it is harder in other countries than in the Netherlands. (Off a path, cobbles can happen in the Netherlands!)

@patayatouring224 4 ай бұрын

wow. bike lane is very good.

@amcaesar 4 ай бұрын

What an amazing five-year-old kleuter!

@heikkirautanen 4 ай бұрын

Lovely. Just lovely. ❤

@Don19762 4 ай бұрын

Would love to see the inside!

@BicycleDutch 4 ай бұрын

Sure kzbin.info/www/bejne/r6GqfqKbaZtrrNUsi=mwPU02x1S2YRMADF

@BigPhilBigBike 4 ай бұрын

Happy birthday babez!!! 🎊🎉😘

@test40323 4 ай бұрын

reminds me of the ant hill in my backyard,...many hurried riders. :-) what's the +1,0,-1 arrows?

@insertaverygenericnamehere 4 ай бұрын

First floor, ground floor, basement

@janman 4 ай бұрын

They direct to the different parking levels(floors). The right lane(+1) takes you to the ramp going up, while the left lane stay on this level or goes down(-1).

@test40323 4 ай бұрын

@@janman , thankyou kindly.

@texasflood1295 4 ай бұрын

Just remember, if you are walking, stay off the red surface!

@johnveerkamp1501 4 ай бұрын

Better then all those cars !!!!

@jooproos6559 4 ай бұрын

Imaging they were all car drivers!!The Size would have to be at least 10 x larger!

@SandroAntonucci87 4 ай бұрын

I'd say x30, considering you also need space to enter/exit and manoeuvring, let's not forget all the access streets that would destroy the livability nearby

@ReindeRRustema 4 ай бұрын

You can see a justification of the 'patatzak' used in Amsterdam. When bicyclists start together at a traffic light some drive fast and some slow. All next to each other. Therefore the waiting line is wide where they start but on the other side of the street it can be small because the bicyclists ride behind each other already. Here we see a handful of take-overs by fast bicyclists leaving the parking garage in the right lane, seen from the garage. While the ones arriving do it with regular intervals. They are earlier on already 'smeared out' over the stretch of bike infrastructure. In the right lane at departure we see it happening. At 0'42 for example. Why couldn't the designers anticipate this? That lane should be wider than the incoming lane. All that bicycling knowledge not finding their place, how is this possible? It is not perfect yet I would say... Before the 10th birthday this should be fixed.

@BicycleDutch 4 ай бұрын

Actually, they did already fix it, because it is the opposite of what you think! The incoming lane *was* narrower and that caused problems during the time when more people enter and need to check in for the top floor, there was a line and nobody could pass. That is why there are now two entry lanes, after the 2022 reconstruction, so that the people for the ground floor and the cellar (who do not need to check in at this location) can pass the ones in line for the check-in for the top floor.