Reinforcing everyday bike culture in North America, one Dutch bike at a time. Come ride an armchair on a cloud, with us. Get one here: plainbicycle.org
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12 Jun 2023
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Plain Bicycle retweeted
12 Jun 2023
Today #Amsterdam starts a transition experiment of 6 weeks that reclaims a car dominated street as public space.
There are already some important lessons about the importance of language. 1/🧵
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We can all do it too.
8 Mar 2023
In the 1970s, Dutch cities like Amsterdam were full of traffic and air pollution.
Now they are models of sustainable urban planning.
Here's the story of how the Netherlands started building their cities for humans, not cars.
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Plain Bicycle retweeted
20 Feb 2023
“A person on a bicycle can go three to four times faster than the pedestrian, but uses five times less energy in the process.
Equipped with this tool, humans outstrip the efficiency of not only all machines but all other animals as well.”
- Ivan Illich, ‘Energy & Equity’ (1973)
ALT A man in a grey jeans and a black hooded jacket rides a bicycle on a grey asphalt path in a nature area in South Holland. He is surrounded on both sides by water.
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Plain Bicycle retweeted
21 Feb 2023
I’ll be speaking @PKN_Winnipeg on March 1st! Will be great to do a live chat about @plainbicycle
21 Feb 2023
Here they are, the speakers of #pknwpg46! Get to know each of them in the coming days, and catch them talk in the 20x20 format on March 1st at @myparktheatre!
Doors at 7:30 PM, show at 8. Admission is pay-what-you-want, but we suggest $10. Tix info: pknwpg46.eventbrite.com
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Plain Bicycle retweeted
10 Feb 2023
Happy #WinterBikeToWorkDay.
The global version of this event was overshadowed by war, but you can help do good. Consider supporting this project run by some of the same Ukrainian NGOs who would have loved to be celebrating with us: u-cycle.org.ua/projects/bike…
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Plain Bicycle retweeted
7 Feb 2023
Normally, we all ride together on Friday.
After a pandemic, we also celebrate on Saturday.
But not this year.
Not without Ukraine.
Soon we'll all ride together.
Meanwhile, support #BikesForUkraine.
Read how and why:
WinterBiketoWorkDay.org
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Plain Bicycle retweeted
31 Jan 2023
Studies have shown men to be twice as likely as women to travel using individual vehicles. This is part of a long history of men dominating the automotive industry, elevating vehicles over all other modes of transportation, and linking vehicles to their masculine identities. 🧵
ALT Two people biking through a row of vehicles despite a green light for cyclists
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The Hovenring gets attention but Eindhoven also has this cool bicycle interchange. It's a clever solution for navigating what would otherwise be a dangerous and inhospitable environment for people on bikes.
ALT Overview of the interchange. cars and trucks overhead
ALT view from a tunnel
ALT view of an underpass with a truck overhead
ALT google map with bike route view.
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Plain Bicycle retweeted
27 Jan 2023
Our streets need to be urgently redesigned to prioritise active travel and mitigate against more frequent extreme weather events.
Here’s an example from Cardiff using sustainable drainage systems, new street trees and an improved environment for pedestrians crossing.
ALT Before and after street in Cardiff showing improvement is sustainable urban drainage systems and new street trees.
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Plain Bicycle retweeted
27 Jan 2023
Amsterdam opened this week the world's first underwater bicycle facility. There is room for 7,000 bike. This is an engineering masterpiece.
learn more from Pieter Visser from @AmsterdamNL, Video by @Cycling_Embassy
More info: dutchcycling.nl/knowledge/cy…
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Plain Bicycle retweeted
22 Jan 2023
Dutch railways have built 300,000 bike parking spaces since 2019. From that process, they have developed nine design principles:
1. Proximity (to Platform)
2. Always Space
3. Safety
4. Good Flow
5. Comfort & Ease
6. Free of Charge
7. Sheltered
8. Service Available
9. Sustainable
ALT A bicycle parking facility at Rotterdam Centraal Station is filled with dozens of bikes on two-tiered racks. A blue and yellow train waits at the platform above.
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6 Jan 2023
Not all cities (yes, even European ones…) are as bikeable as Dutch cities, but they all can be if they choose to be. Just ask Brussels.
5 Jan 2023
(Finally) another piece of the Small Ring that has been transformed from city highway to city boulevard. With comfortable and safe infrastructure for pedestrians and cyclists, as well as trees. 🌳🚲🚶♀️
#BrusselsForPeople
➡️ pascalsmet.brussels/en/proje…
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Plain Bicycle retweeted
10 Dec 2022
A train that runs on 100% wind power, at a station that runs on 100% sun power, fed by a bike that runs on 100% leg power.
The technology needed for a better mobility future isn’t waiting to be discovered by corporations; it exists and is waiting to be discovered by politicians.
ALT An elderly man in winter attire cycles through an underpass beneath Delft Campus Station. A train waits at the platform above, and the roof is made of black solar panels.
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“It wastes public money NOT to do it”
3 Dec 2022
The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart govts do the math on investing in better mobility.
Let’s be clear — it wastes public money to NOT do it.
#CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife
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Plain Bicycle retweeted
3 Dec 2022
The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart govts do the math on investing in better mobility.
Let’s be clear — it wastes public money to NOT do it.
#CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife
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4 Dec 2022
Kicksleds with plows are a thing.
We now have some.
Test run videos shall be made.
@WinnipegTrails
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That’s approximately twenty two million eight dollar (Canadian) beers, by the way.
22 Nov 2022
"As reported by The Globe and Mail, residents spent a total of $181 million at curbside patios within 13 weeks of summer in 2021. If those spaces had remained dedicated to parking, only $3.7 million would have been reaped during the same time period."
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