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Final Student Presentations 2022 Sustainable Bicycle Transportation in Denmark and the Netherlands
Planning Cities for People on Bikes – Final Presentations The University of Oregon students in the Sustainable Bicycle Transportation in Denmark and the Netherlands for Summer 2022 course have created a final project based on individual topics they found interesting as they traveled this past month. This blog provides a Read more…
Amsterdam
Understanding Amsterdam’s Bicycling Networks
I have gotten better at figuring out Amsterdam’s bike transportation network since I’ve been here 6 days. At first it was pretty confusing as our hostel is in the central part of downtown. But as we’ve ridden around more and more, it is clear that there are protected bike lanes Read more…
Amsterdam
Yes, Amsterdam has some really big intersections!
Triple left turns. Dual right turns. Other than Phoenix, Arizona, I have rarely seen triple lefts. This is a pretty complicated intersection, yet we felt completely comfortable using it. And there were plenty of other folks who we can describe as all ages, all abilities. It is near a hospital Read more…
Netherlands
Creating a Place for Your Community to Enjoy
Yesterday and today we enjoyed a wonderful outdoor area that gives residents of Amsterdam a place to relax and refresh in a large, open, greenspace that connects many museums. It is called the Museumplein. The museums surrounding this open space, which resembles a University Quad, have roughly 20,000 visitors each Read more…
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No Stop Signs – Netherlands or Denmark
Well today we saw our first stop sign. What a bummer. We have ridden hundreds of kilometers in 6 different cities, across two countries. And had not seen a single stop sign.
Netherlands
Best Cities to Drive a Car
We met with Chris Bruntlett who is the director of Marketing and Communications for the Dutch Cycling Embassy on Tuesday, July 12. He works with several different organizations here that perform transportation research. He wrote a couple of books, we’ll have to get some copies circulated – he is really Read more…
Netherlands
As City’s grow into farmland – insight into how Utrecht urban planners think
As City’s grow, it is sometimes necessary to spread into adjacent rural areas. In Oregon, the Urban Growth Boundaries slow this process and help ensure city’s can grow up before they need to grow out into vital farmland and forestland. We were able to see one area that is rapidly Read more…
Netherlands
A Visit to a Mobility Hub
Driebergen-Zeist Mobility Hub Today we took buses, bikes and trains to go visit the new mobility hub that opened at the Driebergen-Zeist train station. These two small towns are located just outside of Utrecht. The total distance is just under 7 miles between Copenhagen Centraal Train Station and the Driebergen-Zeist Read more…
Netherlands
Utrecht – What happens when you pair policy with good facilities
Understanding Utrecht Well this is a pretty big town – about 370,000 or so as of last year (710,000 in their overall urban area, which includes “suburbs”) – they surpassed Bend’s 100,000 population way back in 1900. So they have grown fairly slowly over the years. It’s been around since Read more…