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What can Seattle learn from Dutch street design?

UniversityGreenways · 328K views · 2013-02-23 · 1:05:18

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Overview

Seattle landscape architect Fred Young gives an hour-long visual tour of Dutch cycling infrastructure, covering design details, continuous networks and how cycling fits daily life in the Netherlands.

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HN recommends it as an in-depth tech talk for urban planning, full of small design touches that make cycling safer.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 7 months · HN mentions 2014–2021

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Transit, cities & urban planning
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bike lanesurban planningnetherlandsstreet designroad safety

What people said

Vinnl · 2018-08 · Strong recommendation

For those interested in this, I can highly recommend "What Seattle can learn from Dutch street design" [1]. It's a presentation that gives an overview of all sorts of small infrastructural measures, similar to the Queens Boulervard redesign, taken in the Netherlands to prevent traffic deaths. What makes it especially interesting is that e.g. rather than reducing the speed limit, cars are nudged to slow down through using different material for the road, or by simply making the road less wide. [1] [VIDEO]

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raarts · 2016-08 · Strong recommendation

This is an overview of how the Dutch do it as presented by a city planning guy from Seattle. Lengthy, but I was glued to the screen. [VIDEO]

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Vinnl · 2021-11 · Recommendation

Similar video (but then an hour long) that I always post together with that channel: What can Seattle learn from Dutch street design? [VIDEO]

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