Showing posts with label VeloMondial. Show all posts
Showing posts with label VeloMondial. Show all posts
27 January 2015
03 November 2014
Protected Intersections ~ Key for Urban Bicycling
Pascal van den Noort at VeloMondial spots Nick Falbo's Protected Intersections video... Nick does a good job synthesizing lessons-learned from Dutch designs including those noted by two of my favorite cycle blogs, Mark Wagenbuur's BicycleDutch and David Hembrow's View From the Cycle Path.
23 February 2014
Safe Intersections ~ NL Junction Design Learnings
Mark Wagenbuur at BicycleDutch builds upon earlier posts to delve into Junction design in the Netherlands this time responding to urgings and interpretations from van Veen, Hembrow, Falbo, and Furth (and serious misunderstandings from Washington, DC and Christchurch, NZ). Bottom-line...
"There is an array of measures from which Dutch road designers can choose what is best for a particular situation. But in busy and older down town areas in larger cities there is often no space for the more elaborate measures with detours and tunnels or overpasses. And although even there we see an increasing number of roundabouts, this type of junction design -- a crossroads with cycle paths around it, most often signalised -- will remain the safest solution for a lot of places in the Netherlands. Since many cities in the world have such signalised junctions, this solution to make cycling safer might work there too."Plus, here's Falbo's interpretation for US Protected Intersections...
30 November 2013
City of Bikes ~ Streetfilm Notes from Amsterdam!
Velo Mondial's Pascal van den Noort spotlights Streetfilms offering Bicycle Anecdotes from Amsterdam...
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