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It was called the "Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956"[1]. There was a time before almost every family had multiple cars and the population was 164,063,411 (not 35
by strangattractor 3y ago
It was called the "Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956"[1]. There was a time before almost every family had multiple cars and the population was 164,063,411 (not 350 million) that cars seemed like a pretty good trade off I suppose. Like many old politicians cars have likely outlived a some of their usefulness.
Ran across this Youtube Channel the other day. "Not Just Bikes"
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0intLFzLaudFG-xAvUEO-A https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0intLFzLaudFG-xAvUEO-A
This guy is an Urban Planner I think. Makes a pretty compelling case for things that make Urban areas more livable.
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal-Aid_Highway_Act_of_1956 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal-Aid_Highway_Act_of_195...
- brailsafe 3y agoNah, he's just a mechanical engineer who moved to the Netherlands and started making content on how much better the infrastructure is than the shitty suburbs of Toronto and a few other places, and did a few videos basically re-hashing StrongTowns content which was started also by a civil engineer iirc. I like his channel though. There are a few other YouTubers like CityBeautiful, CityNerd, who he's done collabs with and are in the Urban Planning discipline in some capacity.
- robertlagrant 3y agoWhen your country is flat you can have spent the last 50 years designing cities more around bikes.
- brailsafe 3y agoThe flatness imo only lends itself particularly well to their dutch bikes, but nothing to do with whether a region has invested in their biking infrastructure. Plenty of places are flat, and plenty of those flat places are horrible car-infested hellscapes that are falling apart. There's nothing particular unique about the Netherlands. Fwiw, I'm very much pro car-last infrastructure.