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Cycling Professor

@fietsprofessor

13 Jan

@efesce

“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.”
~E.F. Schumacher

A developing collection 🧵...

(pics from 'A short history of innovation' by @efesce)

(2) of developing 🧵

Fiat 500 (Cinquecento)

@BMW

(3) of developing 🧵

@BMW 5 series

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Cycling Professor

@fietsprofessor

21 Dec 20

MINI LECTURE: Urban structure and mobility behavior

[1/12]
If you have ever heard people saying: ‘cycling cannot work here! Our city is much bigger than Amsterdam!!1!’

🧵👇👇

@MRAsamenwerking

[2/12]
The City of Amsterdam is a central part of a much larger daily urban system.

The Amsterdam Metropolitan Region (@MRAsamenwerking ) spans 2.580 km2 and houses 2.5 million people.
This includes @Schiphol, @Lelystad, @almere, @ZandvoortaanZee.

[3/12]
A whopping 47% of ALL TRIPS from/to/within the region are made by foot 🚶 or by bicycle 🚲.

(according to mobility diary research. Source: samenbouwenaanbereikbaarheid.nl/application/fi…)

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Cycling Professor

@fietsprofessor

23 Oct 20

@EdwardLamb

MINI LECTURE [1/16]

How do we frame systemic traffic violence: As glitches in the machine or as unacceptable human tragedies?

Based on the Open Access paper: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
(pic via @EdwardLamb)

@WHO

[2/16]

Traffic violence represents the largest threat to life and limb that most people in contemporary, car-based society experience on a daily basis in public space.

(statistics of @WHO)

@Avidor

[3/16]

With this magnitude of violence and relatively limited attention it receives, we seem to have collectively accepted it as a tolerable price for our car-based society.

(cartoon by @Avidor)

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Cycling Professor

@fietsprofessor

14 Oct 20

@schmangee

[Mini lecture on Systemic Traffic Violence: 1/11]

If you manually operate a machine of 1300 kilograms (the average weight of a car)…

Pictures by:
@schmangee
@andyjayhawk
@hurtado_alvardo
and....@Audi themselves (H/T @StripyMoggie)

@EdwardLamb

[2/11]

…that offers you relative protection, but can easily be lethal for everybody around you…

Picture via @EdwardLamb

@NACTO

[3/11]

...at a speed of more than 30 kilometers per hour (or: 8 meters each second)…

(source: @NACTO)

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Cycling Professor

@fietsprofessor

2 Oct 20

MINI LECTURE: Street appropriation [1/13]

Cars have taken over our public space. That APPROPRIATION happens in stealth. Government responses to it seem a-political and technocratic. This hides a 1-directional process that should be highly politicised.

Case: BLOKKENWEG (Ede 🇳🇱)

[2/13]

The BLOKKENWEG parallels the train tracks between Utrecht (to the west) and Arnhem (to the east).

It links directly to an important railway crossing for traveling between Ede-South and Ede center. The street and tracks are separated by public allotments since the 1980s.

[3/13]

Built in the 1920s, it was part of a small garden-city district for workers of the ENKA factory. The houses, meant for white-collar workers, were relatively large. Originally, the street was a gravel road with a dedicated walking path.

Cars where almost non-existent.

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Cycling Professor

@fietsprofessor

7 Sep 20

@dutch_ish

Adapting streets to a "six-foot-city" is certainly a question of geometry & space, but also how to govern that space, how to develop capacity to deliver #humanscale networks.
3 principles explored in our latest commentary bit.ly/3h6bkWZ
Photo: @dutch_ish

Principle 1 for #humanscale streets: leverage #accessibility to meaningful destinations. Entire street networks that offer a range of mobility options need to be realized. bit.ly/3h6bkWZ

@eucyclewalk

Principle 2 for #humanscale streets: Empower #local policy networks to nurture public and political support for improved accessibility at the human scale. #citizenscience #datadriven #CommunityEngagement
Photo: @eucyclewalk

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