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American Fietser

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🇳🇱 Dutch Cycling/Infrastructure/City Design, e-Cargo Bike Ambassador

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Designing cities to suit everyone means designing streets that don't revolve around the presence of the automobile.

The demand is there and it will quickly become apparent once you build spaces for people rather than cars.

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We've got a clip from our latest interview, talking about the importance of safe infrastructure and how drivers often disregard painted lanes, making protected lanes even more crucial.

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A reminder that the cheapest, quickest change happens not through construction, but through reallocation of space.

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Urban vitality thrives on human-scale transport solutions like e-bikes. When we divert attention to policing these instead of addressing the challenges of oversized vehicles, we miss the mark on what makes a city truly habitable.

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Phones and their apps are purposefully designed to be addictive. Anyone who walks or bikes next to a stream of motorists can see this plain as day.

What responsibility do these corporations have in distracted driving that brings death and destruction to our built environment?

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There's a difference between accommodating motorists within a city and designing exclusively for their convenience.

This is a proper compromise. 👇

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Garfield and Friends taught child-me that a guy could be a work-from-home cartoonist, with a cat and a dog, afford a house and car, while living a happy single life.

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Never in the history of car culture has the transportation option been allocated space and it did not ask for more.

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I support modal filters such as retractable bollards causing motorist's cars to bleed black rather than a motorist causing a person to bleed red in an urban space.

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