The Bike-Train Mobility System in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 (Seminar presented to Zaanstad city officials)

Talk by Dr. George Liu / georgeliuphd
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[@Weaver271]

This way of thinking about the Dutch Bike-Train network should be presented to all of those holding public office in the Netherlands! No one in the Netherlands is really aware of this since is so commonplace. Prime example is the Dutch Liberal Party VVD proposing the Dutch Railsways (NS) should cancel it's OV-Fiets Rental Bike program since it isn't profitable!

[@autohmae]

It's silly not to consider trains and bikes, the reduced cost of not having to build more streets and lanes and greatly reduced maintenance is an easy win.

[@DanielBrotherston]

Lol...do they ever consider how profitable the free car parking next to our local station is I wonder?

[@kailahmann1823]

Multimodal transit is an extremely powerful, but far to often overlooked option - even for relatively rural areas (as a Bike+Bus version): Serving every tiny village with frequent transit isn't feasible, as it would create more bus-traffic than it removes car-traffic. But serving frequent service to the towns (those big enough for their own infrastructure…) usually about every 5-10 km puts almost every spot into biking distance from one of these.

[@mavadelo]

The funny thing to me is that this is a reason for a North American to study and make a presentation about while for the average Dutch person it is a "well... duh-uh" thing. The traveltime app/site was fun though. Basically got the results I expected to see with different times.

[@joymerluzzi]

Ven a Perú por favor, aquí estamos en nada, somos el reto!

[@nynkeham3126]

What is the name of the app that was mentioned?

[@thewildbunchASD]

As a bike loving Dutch person, i think the rental of bikes and cars is against the purpose of public transport especially in a place where everyone has a bike. The real solution is like in Denmark, make space for many bikes on short distances but also invest in trains like the German regional trains where there is a lot of space for bikes. Just i have more and more problems with my Omnium bike as its a two wheeled cargo bike without box but its not allowed in any tains while its by far the best way of transportation on long and short distance but i would like to take take trains too when i want to move further away. I will an can never not rent a bike from NS. I did however use Greenwheels for work, an NS partner. And that solution is cheaper than the actual train!!! Who is biting who in the ass?