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The Way To GoPascal van den Noort (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01267145587805644480noreply@blogger.comBlogger682125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4975833435286220290.post-30954495174667148002020-08-19T12:45:00.004+02:002020-08-19T17:07:24.848+02:00Cycling in Amsterdam<h2 style="text-align: left;"> <span color="" face="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: roboto, noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Relaxed morning ferry bicycle commute in Amsterdam</span></h2><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aqoRBJHw4Qk" width="320" youtube-src-id="aqoRBJHw4Qk"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span color="" face="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: roboto, noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cyclists cannot take the car tunnel to cross the body of water called IJ (pronounce in Amsterdam dialect: eye). For that purpose the city has a host of ferries in exploitation. All for free since car drivers don't have to pay to use the tunnel. This is a very relaxed commute in holiday times. It will give you an idea how this works.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span color="" face="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: roboto, noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is a 360 degree video; use your mouse or phone to look around.</span></div><span color="" face="" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-family: roboto, noto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>Pascal van den Noort (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01267145587805644480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4975833435286220290.post-1063127219350928872020-07-30T12:27:00.002+02:002020-07-30T12:36:11.868+02:00Cycling in Amsterdam<h2 style="text-align: left;">Cycling along Prinsengracht on my way home</h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zLChFDpN7Pw" width="320" youtube-src-id="zLChFDpN7Pw"></iframe></div><div><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is part of Prinsengracht, the almost outer of the big canals in the canals district. It is used by me to go home, like here. 360 degrees footage. Use highest quality option when playing.</span></div>Pascal van den Noort (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01267145587805644480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4975833435286220290.post-20291134555444065552020-07-30T12:24:00.002+02:002020-07-31T12:03:56.139+02:00Cycling in Amsterdam<h2 style="text-align: left;">Polder meditation</h2><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/C4GjvJTLDUo" width="320" youtube-src-id="C4GjvJTLDUo"></iframe></div><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cycling in the polders bring you in a meditative state which is good for creative thoughts and cooking up new ideas. This path is most likely 50 years old and will not be up for renovation any time soon. Obviously cars cannot go here. Look around you, with your mouse, mobile phone or otherwise, it is in 360.</span></div>Pascal van den Noort (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01267145587805644480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4975833435286220290.post-68239442544446493352020-07-30T12:22:00.001+02:002020-07-30T12:22:21.009+02:00Cycling in Amsterdam<h2 style="text-align: left;">Showing off electric bike behind Rijksmuseum </h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/v62jRL4AAbw" width="320" youtube-src-id="v62jRL4AAbw"></iframe></div><div><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Electric supported bicycles come in 2 flavors: Pedelecs that support the cyclist to speed up top 25km/hour and Speed Pedelecs that are basically electric mopeds in bicycle guise; they can (theoretically) go up to 45km/hour. Sales of both types of bikes have sky rocketed since a few years but since corona intense. This proves that using a big car for a simple errant or commuting is elementary stupid. And it is cheaper and healthy, and you meet nice people.</span></div>Pascal van den Noort (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01267145587805644480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4975833435286220290.post-17775720198325144212020-07-30T12:18:00.000+02:002020-07-30T12:18:04.704+02:00Cycling in Amsterdam<h2 style="text-align: left;">Polder road</h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HKQetqBfUzQ" width="320" youtube-src-id="HKQetqBfUzQ"></iframe></div><div><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Just a polder road. What a polder is? I take the Brittanica definition, although one might want to detail bits better: Polder, tract of lowland reclaimed from a body of water, often the sea, by the construction of dikes roughly parallel to the shoreline, followed by drainage of the area.</span></div>Pascal van den Noort (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01267145587805644480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4975833435286220290.post-57979346651878018812020-07-26T12:58:00.002+02:002020-07-26T12:58:37.833+02:00Cycling in Amsterdam<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Cycling in the Fly Forrest, het Vliegenbos</span></h2><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KiNj2biGBXo" width="320" youtube-src-id="KiNj2biGBXo"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; font-family: roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Parks and small forests are very important for recreational cycling as well as for commuting</span></div><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div>Pascal van den Noort (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01267145587805644480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4975833435286220290.post-1370445926942565682020-07-26T11:48:00.002+02:002020-07-26T11:50:21.863+02:00Cycling in Amsterdam<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">From Central station to the Ferry across the IJ with Shared Space</span></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZcA37FVinNE" width="320" youtube-src-id="ZcA37FVinNE"></iframe></div><div><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; font-family: roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Especially the offloading of the quite frequent ferries surprises guests</span></div>Pascal van den Noort (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01267145587805644480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4975833435286220290.post-83848998193305138892020-07-26T11:46:00.003+02:002020-07-26T11:50:44.499+02:00Cycling in Amsterdam<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Central Station Amsterdam</span></h2><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yjR8jn6EBI8" width="320" youtube-src-id="yjR8jn6EBI8"></iframe></div><div><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; font-family: roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">As a consequence of constructing a North South Metro line, also Central Railway Station Amsterdam underwent huge changes.</span></div></div>Pascal van den Noort (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01267145587805644480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4975833435286220290.post-78753830489898783672020-07-26T11:41:00.003+02:002020-07-26T11:51:53.468+02:00Cycling in Amsterdam<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Cycle Street Part 2</span></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FMdPjU1QcPA" width="320" youtube-src-id="FMdPjU1QcPA"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div>Cycle Streets become standard practice in Amsterdam; car drivers are invited guests and are expected to behave as such.</div>Pascal van den Noort (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01267145587805644480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4975833435286220290.post-23411638945297857862020-07-22T13:15:00.008+02:002020-07-26T12:03:58.613+02:00Cycling in Amsterdam<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Cycle Street part 1</span></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://youtu.be/bX27NWAO11U" target="_blank"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qtda7LPqBOo" width="320" youtube-src-id="qtda7LPqBOo"></iframe></div></a></h2><div><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; font-family: roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cycle Street become the standard in Amsterdam</span></div><br /><div><br /></div>Pascal van den Noort (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01267145587805644480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4975833435286220290.post-52670034520741776382020-07-22T13:05:00.017+02:002020-07-30T12:20:07.968+02:00Cycling in Amsterdam<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">From Canal District to Central Station</span></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AdO9W-i33ws" width="320" youtube-src-id="AdO9W-i33ws"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #030303; font-family: roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Central Station Amsterdam undergoes main reconstructions. This goes in coordination with the new metro line that passes underneath Central Station and goes all the way from Amsterdam North to the business district in Amsterdam South in 15 minutes.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div>Pascal van den Noort (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01267145587805644480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4975833435286220290.post-50463555803335596772020-07-01T13:17:00.000+02:002020-07-31T12:08:31.433+02:00Cycling in Amsterdam<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">After Rush Hour</span></h2><div><h3><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Oh19pvhku0Q" width="320" youtube-src-id="Oh19pvhku0Q"></iframe></h3><p style="text-align: left;">Car drivers in Amsterdam are very courageous or fatalists?</p></div>Pascal van den Noort (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01267145587805644480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4975833435286220290.post-59781703614771119512017-07-11T09:04:00.003+02:002017-07-11T09:10:18.110+02:00<h3>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Velo Mondial Blog can be temporarily viewed via <a href="http://velo-citta.eu/news/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Velo<i>Cittá</i></span></a></span></h3>
<span style="background-color: #faf3f7; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: center;">VeloCittà aims to provides inspiration and build capacity in local authorities and BSS stakeholders. We work with stakeholders that are engaged with the design and implementation of effective and resource-efficient solutions. This has resulted in a boost in the uptake of BSS’s and set in motion a beneficial snowball effect on urban cycling as a whole. The project ended in February 2017 but will see its results continued in the ‘Platform for Cities on Bike Share ’ and the ‘Bike Share Workspace’.</span><br />
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</span>Pascal van den Noort (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01267145587805644480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4975833435286220290.post-56164726358233534172016-05-04T10:09:00.002+02:002016-05-04T10:09:53.025+02:00Sharing schemes within the CIVITAS DYN@MO projectSharing a vehicle, whether it’s a car or a bicycle, has many advantages such as saving money for the individual and improving the environment due to fewer vehicles on the road. In addition, it paves the way for multi-modal use of transport systems since the vehicle-sharing concept excels at high flexibility due to the independency of timetables and predetermined routes. Automated sharing systems can reliably be in operation year-round, day and night. Furthermore, the user freely chooses the fastest route to his destination not being bound to bus or train lines. In other words, a vehicle-sharing system adds customer value to the whole transport chain. The DYN@MO cities of Aachen, Gdynia, Koprivnica and Palma have been strongly committed – each city in its own way and own scale – to introducing and extending the usage of sharing schemes, with traditional bicycles, electric bicycles as well as with electric and hybrid cars. This brochure describes the partner cities’ practical experiences of their establishment of sharing schemes within the CIVITAS DYN@MO project.<a href="http://www.civitas.eu/content/establishing-sharing-schemes-dynmo-cities-reduce-individual-transport" target="_blank"> Read more here</a>.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Pascal van den Noort (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01267145587805644480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4975833435286220290.post-62958248976165748672016-03-31T16:27:00.000+02:002016-04-07T09:33:01.011+02:00Bikeshare safer than riding personal bikes<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Anyone who’s ever ridden a bikeshare bike can tell you: they are hardy, aluminum tanks on two wheels. But does that translate to an inherently safer experience on the street, especially when many casual riders are likely unfamiliar with a city’s bike infrastructure? A recent study from the Mineta Transportation Institute determined that yes, bikeshare systems in major metropolitan areas have low rates of collisions, and are in fact safer than riding a personal bike. The report, “Bikesharing and Bicycle Safety,” examined at data from three active bikeshare systems: Capital Bikeshare in Washington, D.C., Nice Ride in Minneapolis/ St. Paul, and Bay Area Bike Share in the San Francisco Bay Area. Researchers also met with focus groups of bikeshare riders and non-members in San Francisco and San Jose to determine riders’ habits and perceptions, sought insight from road-safety experts, and analyzed crash data from the various operators and state transportation agencies in the three metropolitan areas. <a href="http://mobilitylab.org/2016/03/21/bikeshare-safe-new-research-says/" target="_blank">Read more here</a></span></div>
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Pascal van den Noort (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01267145587805644480noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4975833435286220290.post-51730816278231057672016-03-26T09:42:00.002+01:002016-03-26T09:45:24.119+01:00Salt Lake city street removes parking, adds bike lanes and sales go up<div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Protected bike lanes require space on the street, and removing curbside auto parking is one of several ways to find it. But whenever cities propose parking removal, retailers understandably worry. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A growing body of evidence suggests that if bike lanes and parking removal are</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">part of a general plan to slow traffic</strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, everybody can win. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In an</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8tOk7_upXv5djhCajg1Z0I3bmhTVTIxWldwRzA0YjJWNW9R/view?usp=sharing" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00aaf6; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; margin: 0px; outline: none !important; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">in-house study</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> of its new protected bike lane, Salt Lake City found that when parking removal was done as part of a wide-ranging investment in the streetscape — including street planters, better crosswalks, public art and colored pavement — it converted parking spaces to high-quality bike lanes and boosted business at the same time. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">On 300 South, a street that's also known as Broadway, SLC converted six blocks of diagonal parking to parallel parking and also shifted parallel parking away from the curb on three blocks to create nine blocks of curb-and-parking-protected bike lanes on its historic downtown business corridor.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">It added up to a </span><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">major road diet </strong><span style="background-color: white;">on part of the street (from five general travel lanes to three) and </span><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">much less auto parking</strong><span style="background-color: white;"> on another part (a 30 percent cut total). <a href="http://www.peopleforbikes.org/blog/entry/salt-lake-city-street-removes-parking-adds-bike-lanes-and-sales-go-up" target="_blank">Read more here.</a></span></span></div>
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Pascal van den Noort (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01267145587805644480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4975833435286220290.post-4382309256926332012016-03-24T08:39:00.002+01:002016-03-24T08:42:28.255+01:00Bike Share System organisation in UK<div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #6f7175; margin-bottom: 1.5em;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Bikeplus is a new representative body for the UK’s bike share schemes. Sixteen towns and cities have bike share schemes, with at least another four in development. Over 10 million trips were made by shared bikes in the UK in 2015. B</span><span style="color: #5a747e;">ikeplus roles can be summarised into three key functions: </span><strong style="border: 0px; color: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.02em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit;">Collect data</strong><span style="color: #5a747e;"> </span><span style="color: #5a747e;">to provide evidence of for the benefits of bike share schemes. </span><strong style="border: 0px; color: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.02em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit;">Collecting and sharing information</strong><span style="color: #5a747e;"> </span><span style="color: #5a747e;">on: </span><span style="color: #5a747e; text-align: inherit;">statistics on bike shares status in UK, </span><span style="color: #5a747e; text-align: inherit;">good practice for setting up successful schemes, </span><span style="color: #5a747e; text-align: inherit;">developments overseas, </span><strong style="border: 0px; color: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.02em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit;">Development</strong><span style="color: #5a747e;"> of pioneering projects to ensure the social and environmental benefits are maximised and evenly spread. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #5a747e;">A selection of fact sheets and research from the European Cyclists’ Federation, the Obis Project, the University of West England, and Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (US). Contributions to this resource archive are welcome, please email info@bikeplus.org.uk European Cyclists’ Federation fact sheet. </span><a href="http://www.carplus.org.uk/projects/bikeplus/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9e1e63;" target="_blank">Go to their webpage.</a></span><br />
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Pascal van den Noort (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01267145587805644480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4975833435286220290.post-10933324762533726252016-02-08T09:14:00.000+01:002016-03-24T09:15:09.296+01:00 London could soon have more cyclists than motoristen on its streets <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Londoners are aking to bicycles in record numbers. The number of commuters taking to bicycle in the city have tripled since 2000, while commuting by car has been cut in half. Since the turn of the century, London has seen the number of commuters traveling by bike triple from 12,000 daily commuters to 36,000. Jason Sayer of The Architect’s Newspaper reports that despite the growth, London still lags behind other European cities, including Madrid and Oslo, which have moved to limit automobile access to their city centers. However, as ridership grows better infrastructure is being built to meet demands for safety and access. </span>Britain now boasts over two million weekly <a href="http://blog.archpaper.com/tag/cyclists/">cyclists</a>—an all-time high, according to British Cycling, a governing body in the UK. Sales of U.K. manufactured bikes subsequently <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-35101252">grew 69 percent</a> in 2014 and the effect of this is most evidently seen in the capital. “You can probably trace it back to the bombing attacks in London in 2005,” <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-35101252">points out Simon Mottram</a>, founder of cycling clothing firm Rapha, in a BBC report. “Not to forget the government’s Cycle To Work scheme [introduced back in 1999 and which allows people to buy a bike tax-free].<span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a href="http://blog.archpaper.com/2016/02/pedal-power-soon-london-will-cyclists-car-drivers-still-paving-way/" style="box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">Read more here.</a></span><br />
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<br />Pascal van den Noort (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01267145587805644480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4975833435286220290.post-30878106781092505152016-01-21T09:25:00.000+01:002016-03-24T09:26:16.121+01:00The transformation of Tel Aviv: how cycling got cool in Israel’s hippest city<div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #6f7175; margin-bottom: 1.5em;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When four Israeli cyclists suggested to the Tel Aviv city council in 1994 that it might be a clever idea to promote the bicycle as a new mode of transport, they were met with laughter. “They were told that cycling was something for third world nations,” says Yotam Avizohar, director of the Israel Bicycle Association. “The council official said: ‘Tel Aviv is a modern city. We only promote sophisticated transport solutions. Very soon we will have a light rail system.’” Undeterred, the cyclists gave it another try and approached a council official who they knew to be a cyclist himself. “This time, they were told that cycling was something for European countries. The man said: ‘Israel is a Middle-Eastern country and Israelis are addicted to their cars or to their camels.’ He didn’t see how it could ever be changed.” More than 20 years later, the realisation of the Tel Aviv light rail system is still a very long way off. But cycling has definitely become the new mode of transport in the city. Everywhere you go in Tel Aviv, you see people on bikes, and most of them aren’t wearing any special gear. In Israel’s hippest city, cycling is the hippest way to get around. <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/jan/27/cycling-tel-aviv-israel?CMP=twt_gu" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #9e1e63;" target="_blank">Read more here.</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">www.citylab.com/city-makers-connections/bike-share/ </span>Pascal van den Noort (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01267145587805644480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4975833435286220290.post-46315648069704994672015-12-15T09:39:00.002+01:002015-12-15T09:39:57.428+01:00Halifax bike share system: extending the “reach” of pedestrians<div class="page" title="Page 20">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This document gives insight how to approach a bike share project as a city. Some elements: Multiple operating structures exist, such as: Non-profit, Privately owned and operated, direct contract with operator, transit owned and operated, administrative non-profit with private operator. For the purposes of this pre-feasibility analysis, a non-profit operating structure was chosen due to the frequency at which it has been used for other bike share systems throughout North America. A non-profit would be formed to manage and operate the bike share system. The organization would be responsible for procuring funding, equipment, defining system guidelines, launching the system, and providing expertise for operations.There are a number of general start-up costs. Capital and installation costs associated with the creation of a bicycle share system include equipment purchases, site planning, installation and deployment costs. Annual operating costs after system launch are also included. These costs include salaries, equipment maintenance and replacement, rebalancing equipment, system software upkeep. <a href="http://cyclehalifax.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Halifax-Public-Bike-Share-Travis-Fong-2015.pdf">Read on here.</a></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Pascal van den Noort (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01267145587805644480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4975833435286220290.post-31009221384581011262015-12-14T17:09:00.002+01:002015-12-14T17:09:31.976+01:00The Bike-Share Planning Guide from ITDP<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Bike-share has taken many forms over the course of its development, from free bikes left for a community to use at will to more technologically advanced and secure systems. In every iteration, the essence of bike-share remains simple: anyone can pick up a bike in one place and return it to another, making point-to-point, human- powered transportation feasible. Today, more than 600 cities around the globe have their own bike-share systems, and more programs are starting every year. The largest systems are in China, in cities such as Hangzhou and Shanghai. In Paris, London, and Washington, D.C., highly successful systems have helped to promote cycling as a viable and valued transport option. Each city has made bike-share its own, adapting it to the local context, including the city’s density, topography, weather, infrastructure, and culture. Although other cities’ examples can serve as useful guides, there is no single model of bike-share. <a href="https://www.itdp.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/ITDP_Bike_Share_Planning_Guide.pdf" target="_blank">Read more here.</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>Pascal van den Noort (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01267145587805644480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4975833435286220290.post-11916886436670871752015-11-16T09:25:00.003+01:002015-11-16T09:26:22.530+01:00Washington cycles<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="309" mozallowfullscreen="" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/142332258" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="600"></iframe>Pascal van den Noort (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01267145587805644480noreply@blogger.com0