Re: Connect2


<paultbgannon@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote

[snip]

The report was written by a member of LCC who attended the
conference.
Not by me. Notes [in square brackets] have been added by me.

The next speaker [after introductory remarks by the Ambassador] at
the
conference was Ms Ria Hilhorst, the cycling coordinator for the
Municipality of Amsterdam.

[snip]

The aim of the plan was to reduce the
number of parking spaces for cars and making them more expensive.

[snip]

Cycling becomes appealing when it is easier and faster
to go by bike

[snip]

Yup, it works in London, too.

I note that almost all over the world traffic engineers assume that
cycling is four times as fast as walking. There's one exception,
though, the Netherlands, where cycling is only three times as fast.
[1] What is it that causes this mysterious slowdown? Are Dutch bikes
really such clunkers?

There may be a clue from the demand, before the last Dutch Cycle
Master Plan, by Dutch cyclists, that cycle journey times to town
centres be reduced by 20% [2]. The cyclists would not have made this
demand unless they had thought that poor design of Dutch facilities
was making journey times **at least** 25% longer than necessary

Nothing ever came of the Dutch complaint of course, except for some
rather mysterious comments in the Dutch design standards about
distances. [3]

Jeremy Parker

[1] Dutch Directorate-General for Passenger Transport "The Dutch
Bicycle Master Plan" Mar 1999, p107

[2] CTC "More Bikes, Policy into Best Practice" 1995? p49

[3] CROW "Sign up for the bike, Design manual for a cycle-friendly
infrastructure" 1993, p26


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