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Dutch cycling lifestyle
- whalesalad 3y agoI’m in Hamburg Germany right now and it’s pretty wild to see just how bike friendly everything is. Commuters to work this morning were like a school of fish.
- soperj 3y agoI couldn't wipe the smile off my face biking everywhere in Holland, and it was in the winter! That being said, this app didn't do anything nice to my make for vehicles no sidewalk cul-de-sac.
- switch007 3y agoVery interesting concept! I've cycled a fair bit in NL and it's so fun; literally puts a smile on my face. I'd love to see a Dutch style transformation of my village. It's full of traffic, the paths are narrow because the road takes up so much space, and it's a very popular location for people to visit. The main street is perfect for pedestrianisation as there is an adjacent road that cars and buses can use. It's actually often quicker to drive down that road, but people don't, because it's slightly longer, and instead use the main street, which is a bit annoying. Unfortunately the immediate area is very hilly, so cars dominate, and the topography isn't changing any time soon.
- OnlyMortal 3y agoHeh. I nearly got squashed by a van in Amsterdam. On a “happier” note, a girl I met cycled me home but we hit the tram lines on Leidseplein. We both fell off and I landed square on top of her by the tram stop. Oddly, I never saw her again. So many anecdotes…
- nxobject 3y agoOne of the benefits of quiet cycling streets... vividly cringeworthy reactions (and other human interactions, too...)
- xnx 3y agoCool tool to reimagine what an street from Google Streetview might look like remade in the Dutch style to be pedestrian friendly. Giving it the address (6607 US-19, New Port Richey, FL 34652) of one of the notorious "stroads" in America really pushes it to its limit.
- skzo 3y agoObligatory xkcd [0] [0] https://xkcd.com/2832/ https://xkcd.com/2832/
- pixelpoet 3y agoNot shown: cyclists from Groningen putting the fear of god into you everytime you cross the street. It's absolutely bonkers out there, even by European crazy cycling standards; it's like they took a little inspiration from Indian traffic management! :)
- the-dude 3y agoAs a native Groninger I can confirm. Try to approach traffic as a dance.
- rambambram 3y agoWhat has a pedestrian friendly street to do with "Dutch cycling lifestyle"? To me, the lifestyle (!) of a Dutch cyclist starts with taking a cold shower in the winter mornings because that way cycling to work doesn't feel so cold. And the kind of pedestrian friendly alleys you see in the images are usually forbidden for cyclists anyway.
- moneytide 3y ago> taking a cold shower in the winter mornings because that way cycling to work doesn't feel so cold Adrenaline works better than caffeine.
- thanatos519 3y agoI'm living in the Netherlands and never moving anywhere that's at least 90% as bike-centric. Visiting North America is about as fun as a trip to the morgue.
- martopix 3y agoThis is a cool idea, but I wish we didn't call everything that is bike-friendly "Dutch". There are many towns and city centres that are good for cycling and walking, across Europe and beyond.
- brnt 3y agoThere are even many places in the Netherlands that aren't bike friendly. What people really mean is the urban, western region of the Netherlands. In many other places it's much more hit and miss.
- wjnc 3y agoUh, if you’re bikeshaming, please be specific. I’d go so far as to say that the non urban, non western region of the Netherlands is more bike friendly than the urban western part. Noord-Brabant is pretty much one big bikepath, as is Limburg. On top of that most 50 and 80 kph roads are pretty solid for solo cycling. That’s thousands of usable kilometers. I’m really trying to think of counterexamples… Zeeland: Nice cycling, Friesland, Utrecht, Flevoland: the same. I’ve cycled at least a few thousand kilometers in each of those provinces. I’ll grant you that as a tour cyclist you don’t see the nitty gritty local routes that aren’t always safe. A bad urban design that’s quite common is a right turn for cars at a traffic light with a parallel cycling path sharing the same green. Cars get green and take the turn while the cyclist goes straight ahead.
- brnt 3y agoSouthern Limburg (and before you reveal you are a Hollander, no, thats not just Maastricht) is terrible, but the locals don't see it because they think bikes are a sport and tourists are, well, tourists. Things are not very different in the north (other than fewer hills). There isn't but should be a freelying bike path density index to quantify this, I think it should be helpful. But really, I have found that the more non-urban it gets, the more likely it is sideskirts where cars pass you at 80kmh at a meter distance are the best you can hope for. Data on how people commute supports this BTW: the Netherlands _also_ is a car loving country, yet those worlds rarely seem to speak. I'm not terribly Dutch, so I seem to be not observing some social and regional walls or something.
- nunez 3y agoi fed it a street we lived on in a brutal car-first suburb and it returned...very weird results!
- adapiz 3y agoI've tried it with a German Autobahn. I would say it's heavily biased to detect asphalt and replace it with some kind of pavement and flowers. Sometimes also the not so nice cobbled variant. It also had the space of 4 lanes and made a single one out of it. Another experiment had a large construction site on the image. Kinda funny it left the barrier protecting the area completely untouched and just placed flowers on the other side of the road. It's hard to get good or realistic results because it seems to hate grey areas (not in the sky) and likes green. So if there's a grass strip it's likely to remain unaltered. If it detect bushes it renders them to trees so people could spend time under them. So in conclusion, it knows what people would enjoy. In that matter it works out.
- matthewfelgate 3y agoThis tool could do with a location picker as it's picking odd views of streets.