Utrecht’s Vredenburg is the busiest cycle path in all of the Netherlands
Why Hacker News recommends it
Cited as a visual example of what bike-first infrastructure looks like, including how few helmets are worn.
What it is
A short Streetfilms montage of Vredenburg in Utrecht, a car-free street carrying about 33,000 cyclists a day. It shows heavy bike traffic alongside pedestrians and buses.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2021 to 2024.
What Hacker News said
Cites ryukafalz · 2021-04 · on “E-Scooters roll into New York”
>Imagine how awesome scooters would be if a city had as many scooter parking spaces as it did car parking spaces, and as many scooter lanes as it did car lanes... Right, exactly. Parking would take up a fraction of the space of car parking, emissions would be lower, etc. (They don't necessarily need to be dedicated scooter lanes either; bikes are moving at similar speeds and with similar risk, so protected bike lanes would work well for both.) I could bike to just about anywhere I might want to go in the city I live in within about 35 minutes. I'm sure I'd be healthier, I'd be lowering my emissions vs. driving, and in many cases I'd get there faster than via public transport: the routes don'
Cites Kim_Bruning · 2022-03 · on “Bicycling Street Smarts, Chapter 6: Using Your Brakes (2001)”
If you have to wear a helmet, the bicycling infrastructure isn't safe enough (yet). Traffic engineers can well and truly be proud of themselves when people simply don't bother to wear a helmet anymore (because it's not needed). See eg: * [LINK] Copenhagen: Few helmets * [LINK] Strassbourg: a bit more helmets (but not a lot) * [this video] Utrecht, the Netherlands. Very few helmets indeed.
Cites em500 · 2023-03 · on “Cyclists Now Outnumber Motorists in City of London”
Try to count the number of helmets you can spot: [LINK] [this video] In Amsterdam if we see adult cyclists with a helmet we'd guess it's probably a tourist or new expat. For children most parents only bother with helmets until they're six years or so.
Cites teekert · 2024-02 · on “Cyclist hit by driverless Waymo car in San Francisco, police say”
That is a US perspective. We don't have "cyclists" everybody uses a bike from time to time, our infrastructure is build for it [0], and when you get your driver’s license your learn how to deal with it. [0] [this video]