The Death And Rebirth Of Bike Highways - Cheddar Explains
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- čas přidán 24. 07. 2024
- Bicycling may play second fiddle to driving in America, but that's not always the case abroad. Cheddar explains why some European countries are building new bicycle superhighways and how it'll transform their transportation landscape.
CORRECTION: The RijnWaalpad cost 17 million euro to construct.
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Love seeing the Not Just Bikes crew invading the comments before I even get a chance to watch it. 😂
For what it's worth, elevated bicycle highways are not a good idea. They're extremely expensive, and they lose the community interaction that you get from high levels of cycling (for instance, increased levels of sales at adjacent businesses). Bicycle highways like this show a very commuting-centric view of bicycling, and also show a very car-centric view as well. There's a reason why you find elevated cycling plans in car-centric places like Germany, the US, and the UK. Even the hovenring (which was shown) was built in Eindhoven, one of the (historically) most car-centric Dutch cities.
People walking and cycling belong on the ground, because city is made better when people can interact with one another. Cars, if they are allowed, are the things that belong grade-separated from the people.
See my "bicycle roads" video for more about how that's done properly in the Netherlands.
All that aside, fully separated bicycle roads belong in and between cities, and I'm glad to see bigger channels like Cheddar talking about this.
I feel like they're partly making them raised to make the argument that its expensive and the lower turnout will be a big "i told you so." To those who say biking is better by those who promote the car.
Cycling is slower and public transport requires time table dependency
@@DrJams Cycling on the mentioned cycling highway in germany, ruhr area, is ofter equally as fast as driving. I know it because I live there. I can see the bicycle highway at this moment
@@DrJams incorrect. with proper infustructure, cycling is faster than driving, and public transportation is considerably faster. get out of the USA bud
@@DrJams if a city is designed for cycling, cycling is often comparable or even faster than cars. If you tell cyclists to just mingle with the cars and no they can't have any infrastructure that's designed for them, sure, cars are faster. If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree...
Not to mention, driving a bike counts as exercise, so even if it's a bit slower, you get some exercise done. Basically doing two things at once.
Not Just Bikes gang! Assemble!
@@matthewmango4461 You mean the "meowmeow?" 😂😂🤣🤣
City beautiful gang X Not Just bikes gang
Lekker fietsen!
This was recommended to me after a Dutch Cycling video, so there!
Yes! Haha 😂 😊
I honestly think it's a bad move to start with "cycling highways" if you want a robust cycling network. Start with the small stuff, make a town bikeable. Once every town or city has a good network in it, you can start thinking about connecting those networks.
Well my towns promise 10 years ago was no person shall live more than 1/4 mile further away from a bike path and it happened so my city is half bikes
In America? I would disagree
with how america built and continues to build it's suburbs , everything is hours away
@@gidd well my neighborhood has a nature preserve down the road and recently people have had to actually ask the city to not go through a nature preserve with the trail system
But cars will always run people over no matter how bikeable your city is. I like this.
@@gidd sucks that everything is built around the car
Is Not Just Bikes singlehandedly creating such demand for biking videos that all these other channels are shifting to biking content? I love it.
The demand was there but not yet uncovered! Not Just Bikes simply discovered that demand~ :D
Don't forget BicycleDutch and Jay Foreman ;)
@@Silvarret I also watched almost every BicycleDutch video, but my point is that I would have never got CZcams recommending the channel to me if I hadn’t first washed Not Just Bikes. NJB compares and contrasts Dutch city infrastructure with North American infrastructure not only in the video, but also in the title and the thumbnail, so it clickbaits those who would have otherwise not been interested in Dutch infrastructure into clicking.
Seriously after watching one of his videos I was amazed bc I felt like I discovered something that I really wanted but never knew. After binging all his videos I wish everything was bike-centric
NJB created induced demand you might say :)
The reason the Dutch one was so expensive, was because it needed to cross 2 major rivers (with a wide bridge to let boats under it). Normally most cycling highways are just a regular street that has been turned clear of cars that take a different route now. With the American grid system it would be very easy to do that. Perhaps connect up a few areas but replacing an entire road with cycling lanes is pretty cheap. It doesn't need to float or anything fancy.
thats what happened in montreal, it was pretty great as a cyclist but was overdone on some major arteries during the summer where a 3 lane became a 1 lane
bedoelen ze met bike highways fietspaden langs de kant van de snelweg of fietspaden?? Ik snap het niet zo goed..
@pies muis
Ze bedoelen in principe echt grote fietspaden die gescheiden zijn van de auto’s maar cheddar doet niet echt goede research. In Nederland noemen we een fietspad die niet direct naast een weg zit of die twee steden verbind al gauw een fietssnelweg. En hierdoor laten zij het lijken alsof wij een soort mega brug hebben door de weilanden terwijl in werkelijkheid dit gewoon een normaal fietspad is door een weiland en wat woonwijken
@@holyblobvis965 ahh oki duidelijk dankjewel ^^
I'm 31, can't drive (never had the money for lessons), and love my bike. Got a new one this year, Dutch style, it's wonderful. I miss cycling in Japan; there were so many cyclists and bike shops, as well as bike parking.
Yes, America lacks the infrastructure.
Bicycle parking is a very important point.
The Netherlands are building massive parking garages only for bikes, but I can't imagine the US doing the same, at least in the next couple of years (maybe decades).
Yeah Japan is great they don’t just hand out licenses to everyone. No need for infrastructure most times. It’s more about culture. Netherlands is a delusional fool’s paradise.
I'm just waiting for all the Not Just Bikes fam to descend on this comment section lol
here
Lol so true
Here
here, laughs in Dutch
Not Just Bikes is the reason for my obsession with biking and the Netherlands. My first video from his was about how common cars crashing into buildings in North America that it often isn’t even reported by the news, whereas, when it happens in the Netherlands, they shut down the whole street until they can come up with a plan to redesign the street so that it doesn’t happen again.
You report these bike highway costs and they can sound high, but we are planning 50km (30 miles) of highway for $6-billion. Bike routes are a bargain compared to streets and highways.
This. Not only are bike highways roughly the width of a single car lane, they require much less groundwork and maintenance because there will be no heavy vehicles. Also, there's no noise pollution so you can have them running through residential neighborhoods.
car pays tax, bike don't
@@saltymonke3682 I don't think you're exempt from taxes if you own a bicycle. Try and explain that one to the tax office, lol!
@@saltymonke3682 There's also the issue of the sort of development patterns encouraged by car-centric infrastructure. When everybody drives, buildings have to be further from the street due to "clear zone" requirements to prevent cars crashing into buildings. You also need massive parking lots to store all of those cars when not in use. All of the parking lots and clear zones aren't generating much property tax, and they certainly aren't employing anyone. When cities are developed around pedestrians or bikes, things are much denser, so less infrastructure is needed to service developments that are generating more tax revenue. I encourage you to look at satellite images of your city/town, and take note of just how much land area is parking lots, medians, clear zones, etc. as opposed to businesses and homes, and think about the tax revenue that is being lost by underutilized spaces.
@@weetikissa some countries don't, Netherlands, US, Germany for example, while Japan needs registration fees for your bike
I can hear the Netherlands laughing in the background
This!
Laughing about all the facts they got wrong in this video..
@@MRT1TRM could you give me some examples?
@@the_prado @3:00 The Rijnwaalpad is in the Netherlands, not Germany, its not completely raised (it does cross two rivers via a bridge..), cycle highways can be combined with motorized traffic, it did not cost 700 million euro's but only 17. i can go on but there is so much wrong in this video. way to many simple things that could all have been checked with a 5 min google search..
kinda proud we are so good at this without realizing.. I have alot of appreciation now when i go for a walk :D
Wow the Pokémon world has better and cooler infrastructure then us Americans. The Sea side cycling road in gen 3 was so cool too!
because Pokemon world doesn't have to pay for its maintenance
@@saltymonke3682 how do you know? Some articles in the pokémart were damn expensive, I'm sure taxes were included on the price
"Us Humans" Read: Americans. Us Europeans already have cooler infrastructure than Pokemon.
@@asdsdjfasdjxajiosdqw8791 shit my bad
@@Dan-gd6zz Yes I know because I'm not autistic
According to wikpedia the total costs of the "Rijnwaalpad" cycle highway amount to 17 million euros. Not 700 million euros as mentioned in the video? (Why aren't any photos shown?)
@Mike what transition? They went from the German bike highway then the Dutch one and back to the German one when talking about prices. One big messy explanation
@Mike I don't think so. "She" said it comes down to € 30 per person. There are 83 million Germans, so that would make some € 8 per person. It's a bit of a mess, this part of the video. Don't know about the rest.
Cheddar isn't a professional news source, and examples of these silly mistakes back that fact.
@@albertlay8927 ""She" said it comes down to € 30 per person. There are 83 million Germans, so that would make some € 8 per person."
No, you misunderstood. She said the *entire* *Netherlands'* *biking* *infrastructure* costs the Dutch 30 € per person *per* *year* . It wasn't about the cost of one bike highway (not the one in the Netherlands nor the one in Germany).
I have been driving since I was 16. I hate driving. It is a necessary evil in America. I rather walk or cycle but the American infrastructure doesn't allow for cyclists or pedestrians. If there are spots, it is unsafe: cars don't watch out for cyclists or walkers. I live in China and OMG the infrastructure allows for pedestrians and cycling. It is amazing. I cycle everywhere. My mood is better and I enjoy actual seeing things. Plus, I don't have to worry about traffic.
Same with japan and many places in Europe
My soul is slowly dying in Ohio right now
I only use bike and we did find a place right by a bike path but if I try to go to another town I will become a road kill
Same in Mexico. The mass transit is much better, cities are designed for pedestrians, and cars are not the main focus. Mexico City even closes off certain roads on Sundays to allow people to walk and bike them and it has become a great family pastime.
@@julioalvarez9650 Here in Cancun if you don't have a car you cant go anywhere, sidewalks are full of salesman, parked cars or trashbins, luckily they've repurposed some roads and adapted them for bikes, but that's a new thing.
@@kalinabozhkova5655
How funny, I'm from Ohio as well! I feel your pain indefinitely.
Thing for me is, not only have I never understood the appeal of driving, but I also have a visual impairment and literally CAN'T drive. I'm not entirely blind or anything, and in fact according to the state I can drive during the day. Clearly, they were pushing it. My optometrist says the opposite and, frankly, I trust him far more. But regardless, even though my impairment might not be considered a disability, the fact that you can't drive in the US definitely is. Especially somewhere like Ohio, lol. I'm afraid to bike anywhere substantial because I might get flattened. The few shuttle/bus/taxi things that are around are old, unreliable and useless. I DESPERATELY want the US to get our butts out of rush hour and onto bikes and transit, but I don't foresee that happening any time soon. And, honestly, WHY NOT?? As it is, we have so many concerns about the environment, and biking or even rail could help that. Also, it seems like we live in a society always worried for the underdog, but not really people like me. From signs too small to read at restaurant counters, to safe, independent transport, I guess we're on our own...
@@thehackingburger3002 that’s terrible! How are you supposed to take care of your most basic needs 🤯
They are really pushing it and allowing just about anyone to drive because otherwise they’ll be responsible for those people who don’t drive
I have a license that I got after driving on dirt roads in a small village in Texas they looked at me, saw I’m over 16 and assumed I’ll do great on the road 😂
After 4 years living in Nijmegen, turns out I was actually in Germany and not in the Netherlands... 2:56
Americans not knowing anything about Europe part 130549691
😂😂😂
The bikepath isn't even raised
@@koen9303 Literally the only part of it that's raised is the one that goes over the river lol
Nah man she said ''But the Rijnwaalpad is a different story'' and clearly mentions the per capita expenses of the Netherlands
Me, who remembers the bike highway routes in older pokemon games: *[Visible concern]*
They seemed so fast, those were the times.
Haha I just finished replaying omega ruby
Wasn't there only two of those, and the one in gen 1 wasn't even elevated?
@@digojez can't remember much about gen 4 apart for there being too many damn roaches and beavers. Remember gen 5 having a people bridge where they started playing around with more 3d design.
Did you also remember they mentioned a bike highway from the 1900s when there were no Pokemon? So glad Pokemon invented them first and was nice enough to time travel into the past to give it to California. Wow.
Well....Most American Cities still have to yet reach a point where sitting on a bike isn't equivalent to suicide.... Little steps
Americans need to get away from the living in suburbs and commuting to the city being the American Dream, but alas every time a generation does that the older generation freak out and say that their houses aren't going to gain money.
Here's a secret with inflation buying a home just preserves your money and doesn't actually increase it.
About the Rijnwaalpad: With the exception of a few dedicated bridges to cross larger roads and two major rivers, the path is just on ground-level for the most part! Although also features two well-designed tunnels to cross highways. It was one of the first bicycle-highways in the Netherlands (and with that the world probably), so construction costs where around 17 million euros, but similar paths in the future will be cheaper. It's also good for the local economies and it causes less costs for society (maintenance, pollutions, noise, etc)
As a cyclist presently recovering from their second car-related injury (Doored by motorist while in bike lane,) the United States desperately needs better cycling infrastructure. Please, please spread the word that this sort of thing exists.
Totally agree. This video is very eye-opening.
The US "culture" is stuck in the 1950s. Where a family of four or five lives in the suburbs, drives a family vehicle, and commutes to work in the city on the amazing "new" highway system. Because of this it's hard to get the older generations out of the habit of thinking that when the younger generations elect to move to cities it means they aren't grown up.
Stay away from the doorzone. I keep at least 5 feet or almost one and half meter distance from car doors. It s for my own health.
@@paxundpeace9970 Yes. Whenever I see a "bike lane" right next to a car parking lane, I cycle on the streets, far away from the car doors. Maybe you'll get an angry motoris from time to time (hasn't happened to me yet, at least not on those occasions), but it's still bettr than ending up in a car door.
3:30 FYI, almost none of the Rijnwaalpad is raised, in fact I believe the only part the coupd be said to be raised is the section crossing the river Waal along the rail bridge from Nijmegen-Centraal to Nijmegen-Lent. I should know, I've cycled the entire length.
Dutch: 'build cycle a bridge to cross a river' (1.2 miles)
Cheddar: The complete route is raised of the ground for 11 miles and completely separated from cars (the last bit is also false..)
Putting effort in factual information seems to be harder everyday...
Also apparantly Nijmegen is now in Germany..
Arnheim ist doch German?
Tomorrow I'll try the raised rijnwaalpad for the first time and I'll take a covid test with me since elevated Nijmegen is Germany apparently.
@@koen9303 We crossed that bridge 75years ago.
When I lived in LA I would always fantasize about the freeways being converted into great bike paths.
I think, cars were a big mistake.
There'd be a good reason they are two lane only. Were they wide enough for motor vehicle cabs and there were an entry point, they'd quickly take over everything. Only two narrow lanes needed. Only one good one alongside one of the rivers from the mountains to the coastline, unbroken except in two places at a dam and reservoir, and at one of the foothills between.
Many one block ones alongside major roads, often being sites train tracks were removed from and alongside creeks, broken by each major crossing.
Good luck climbing the grades on your bike.
@@mirzaahmed6589 You've never seen anyone ride a bike uphill before? There is actually a whole sport called "mountain biking" that involves riding up and down hills. You could even look at videos of people riding bikes up various grades of steepness right here on CZcams to verify that it is possible. Good luck with your outlook on life!
Would love to see these in NYC. The closest thing I can think of to this, is the NY Greenway in Manhattan. It's not exclusively for bikes, but you have a trail going down almost the entirety of Manhattan and mostly free from cars. I started doing a lot of biking when the pandemic struck and it did a lot for my mental health.
Thanks to the North/South County trail way it is now possible to bike from Battery Park all the way to Brewster, NY with only a handful of miles on car roads. The more the merrier.
crazy I watched the Jay Foreman video on bikes in London yesterday that had the thumbnail picture you used in it
My metropolitan area of Sacramento doesn't exactly have a bike "highway", but there is a 30 mile bike trail from a distant suburb to the city center. The issue is that most of the towns along it don't have much bike infrastructure themselves, though some of them have updated general plans to include better streets for bikes. I'd say rail is better than cycle highways from a commute perspective, but it can be a decent alternative for day-trips.
I would say it mostly depends on the distance. Cycling is better for shorter distances, but at some point a train/subway/tram/bus is more convenient.
We have those in South Dakota. There's a trail across the black hills and loops and lanes in Sioux Falls. (Edit) Sioux Falls has dedicated bike lanes with that cross under highways at intersections, and makeshift bike lanes that are converted parking lanes or road lanes. Sioux Falls has had the main bike trail loop for at least as long as I've been alive.
Arnhem and Nijmegen are in The Netherlands, not Germany...
Um, clearly you haven't watched the video correctly, otherwise you'd notice that she switched from Germany to Arnhem.
Excellent video! Just one recommendation: Use km/h instead of kph since the former shows the approved standard symbols. Also, it would be nice to add meters and km to your visual labels showing feet and miles. Thanks!
I miss being able to ride my bike everywhere in Italy. It helped me stay in shape and i kinda fell in love with it.
3:53
1. Cycle Superhighways have been here for a while and are not what you see in that image.
2. Norman Foster's idea and what you see in the image was called SkyCycle hasn't really been talked about since 2014. It was just a failed idea.
3. The City of London is not the same as London. It is a small autonomous city roughly the size of a square mile in the centre of London and has its own mayor and police force. Boris Johnson was the mayor of London, not the City of London. I'm doubtful they had anything to do with this idea.
4. We don't use Euros, we use the Pound.
5. The line on that map starts in East London and just goes further east. West London is barely even visible on that map.
Burbank has a pedestrian only bike bath that stretches to North Hollywood. It’s only about 4miles long and doesn’t make it to the Burbank shops on the other side of the highway, but it’s there!
Bogotá in Colombia is a great example of bike highways.
In Flanders, a region smaller than most US states, we're buildinge 2400km (1490miles) of cycling highway. Popular locations are old train lines, tow paths next to canals, farmland next to train lines, ... The first 'almost futuristic' picture at the start is pretty common here. As an engineer, I'm working on bridges a lot bigger than that. "Just for bikes" ;)
My husband and I love to bike. We went from biking multiple times a week while living in Seattle to storing our bikes when we got stationed in New Orleans. More cities should endorse and accommodate bikes, not only as a way of leisure and transportation, but also as an encouragement to keep its citizens in a netter health. Biking has many benefits that go beyond going from point A to point B, people need to be reminded of this using social media, local TV and radio stations, and politician's desks!
Very interesting concept
Thanks a ton for this video :)
I'm building a bike highway by hand, over 1000 feet and a parallel lane to that going in now. It's projected to go to the lake on both ends. There is a canal and cart system going in at the start point too, enjoying the earthworks
Thanks for highlighting the cycling possibilities! I feel like there's some momentum for cycling now, let's hope this can be converted in actual bike paths and highways...
watch a few bike videos from the netherlands to see real life examples
@@burgerpommes2001 been there, done that (the 2 a's in my name gives it away ;) ).
I meant on a more global level, outside of the Netherlands and Denmark.
@@christiaan5119
czcams.com/video/Uhx-26GfCBU/video.html
outside the netherlands
As a bike enthusiast I know from experience that they do have their limits. First, being the weather. If it's raining, I will take my car to work but every other day, the five mile trip is still hazardous up here in Northern California. All bike lanes that shoulder the streets are filled with broken glass and debris that often causes flats. Added to that hazard is the constant danger of cars passing by at speeds that would put me in the hospital (or the morgue) if I were to get hit. We do have a dedicated bike path, which is very popular, but it too has its own set of problems. It cost taxpayers a lot of money to build and even more taxes to maintain and it brings very little economical benefit to the community. Meanwhile, area parks and recreational areas often get neglected due to lack of funds that are too often spent on bike paths that only serve a chosen few. This is not smart urban development. We do need more (and safer) bike paths but they also need to serve the community at large in more ways than simply giving us the false sense that we are a 'greener' community.
How much does the path cost to maintain?
Quite interesting! Also: Ali Larkin’s Cheddar videos sound much better than the others. Most of the time we have to turn up the volume just to understand the voice over, but here it’s just right!
Sounds. ungallant but could it be simply a gender issue?
This would be a good idea for towns with denser suburbs
American here ... USA needs to get with this program.
I was cycling down a cycle highway down the side of a road and i got t-boned hard, almost under the car if it wasnt for my feet against its bumper. Funny thing is, that left turn was for authorised personnel only to a specific hospital entrance. He reversed out and left me there shortly after realising. I had to pay for repairs myself and police did nothing as always. I was going straight along it, the car turning left onto the bike highway into my side.
100% of the reason I don't bike is avoiding getting crushed under a lorry
"ebikes over 45kmh" - lmao that's not an ebike that's a motorbike!
it's e bike, motorbike is lot faster than that
@@saltymonke3682 In Europe, what is called ebike or in French "vélo à assistance électrique", is a bike with a motor limited to 25 km/h. It does not mean that you cannot go faster, but the motor will not assist you. Such ebike are 100% equivalent to a bike regarding laws : no insurance needed, no helmet mandatory, can go on all bike only lanes, etc. Furthermore, a European ebike cannot move if you do not pedal, there is no "gas" handle.
And if it goes at more than 25 km/h it is a motorbike, with or without pedals, even if of course some motorbikes can do quite faster. Motorbikes can be driven by 14 years old children if they are limited to 45 km/h, and you must be 18 years old to drive a motorbike that does faster than 45 km/h.
@@didierpuzenat7280 yes, French has that small cc moped/scooter
I would already be happy if there was a continous cycle path on my way to work. I mean, it's only a commute of 3km...
cool clip 🤙
well thats nice co2 emission calculations but whats with the emissions of building an maintaining them?
Way way way lower than a one lane highway
Soon you'll be able to bike from Atlanta to Alabama, it's awesome. Not really a bike highway, but parts of it do meet the requirements.
Love the off centre hub at 1:04
Everyone should bike more! Best form of exercise and in many cases transportation.
Which city is 4:50 from? It's not Portland, that much I know.
Thanks in advance!
Miami
Laughs in Dutch
"European cities have been working on bike infrastructure since the 1970s"
In the UK it was the 1960s, with the construction of Milton Keynes. Right from the start the layout was designed to make cycling easier and safer, with cyclists very rarely having need to use the main grid roads to move between neighbourhoods.
and it's also mostly not true at all, outside of the netherlands, bicycle infrastructure was mostly gone at the end of the 70's. that single town in england is nothing compared to the comprehensive network we have here.
@@ray076NL Weird that in my hometown in Sweden I go on the same bikeroad that been there since before WWI. But before 1950's it was shared with horse transports.
5:20 I see the Nelson Street cycle way from Auckland, New Zealand in this scene.
It looks like the walking path next to the highway in the opening scene of Once Were Warriors.
This misses the reasons why early cycling infrastructure in the USA and Britain failed, the California Cycleway was a toll-road which never made a profit due to be constructed years after 1890s bike boom had ended and competing with the more popular Red Car line, and in the UK the Cyclists' Touring Club protested the government built segregated cycle paths because they feared they be forced to use them.
I would love to commute on my bike but then I think of all the distracted drivers on the road. Another reason to move to Portland.
A cycle highway should be approached just like a normal highway: if there are little roads going to the highway, the highway won't see much use either. As interesting as a 'bike highway' sounds it should be looked at in the total context. Right now in the Netherlands there are a lot of bike highways being made connecting entire cities in a easy way (with little to no intersections with roads or hard curves), it is great, but it wouldn't have been effective if we didn't make entire cities bike friendly first, if we didn't make good connections to nearby grocery stores or schools first or to the local train station.
Bike highways are great. But will fail if that is your first step, no matter how unique or impressive the plan looks.
now i know why walking or biking to the grocery store takes me 5 mins instead of 15mins driving lol
I love these great bike highways. I know that there are cons but I would love to see one!
i lost a lot of weight going to my university on bike... might have gained some of that back recently 😁
What about the city of Santa Clarita in California? They call them Paseos and they connect many parts of the city with grade separated bikeways.
Errr what's with the drone shot of Austin, Texas in the middle of the segment about Portland?
You should look a little closer to home. Calgary in Alberta has one of the most extensive bikeway system in north American which is completely separated from streets for the most part. There are even a few interchanges for bike to get onto bridges.
Wanted to comment as a person living in the most bike friendly country in the world, but then I saw NJB responding......!! ...Go Jason.....
I love cycling where I live the city puts up bike counters for the public to see and every and alongside dedicated bike paths and car roads car traffic fell by 30% which was made up by increased pedestrian, bike and public transportation traffic. My mom has actually told me she will buy a bike to commute around town when a specific bike lane is built this year. You should totally do a video about the Swapfiets business model or look at pedestrian friendly cities such as Vancouver.
The Anacostia bike trail in dc is also really good! I feel like it doesnt get much credit but maybe thats cuz it took twenty years to build :(
Nice!
I've been riding a bike nearly every single day since 1997. Granted i've gone through a few different bikes since then but it's my only transportation, and i do ride all year round.
Maybe this video is just referring to big cities but i am pretty sure the US has bike trails running across states, all around the country that are fairly similar to a "bike highway"...im not saying they couldn't become a bit more complex but I am pretty sure you can bike the entire length or width of certain states. Is there really any difference between a bike highway and a bike trail other than an extra cost and the fact that you don't have to stop at road crossings?
okay but what the hell happened at 2:08
I would totally use this if they existed in Los Angeles :)
I wonder what the speed limit is on a bike highway I'm usually a fast cyclist.
nice
The trick to bicycle commuting in America is... well, it's hard to arrive at work in a presentable condition in 90+ degree heat and high humidity. Few businesses provide showers and changing areas for employees who biked in to work...
Electric bike.
@@grantadamson3478 Which cuts down on the problem somewhat, but doesn't eliminate it entirely.
@@andrewszigeti2174 Yes, not entirely.
I mean, European countries do experience heat waves and high humidity as well?
@@wohlhabendermanager Yes. But in America 90+ is continuous from May to September, and it's not a heat wave until it tops 100.
more please
" common Bicycle Highways in Germany" wait what? You mean that planned 100km highway which is under construction for nearly 10 years and where 10km are completed? Yeah. That works perfectly.
The Netherlands are way ahead. Love to go biking there
They’re very common in the Netherlands
Watching this in Scandinavia like: So it's exactly like a normal bike road except you feel the need to put it up in the air for some reason?
That's to level the grade and make biking easier, instead of going up and down hills like normal roads.
@@mirzaahmed6589I mean, I can see why that'd be comfortable but that's a massive investment to remove part of what makes cycling charming.
Though if it means you don't have to cross car roads, I can see the appeal.
I'd be so down for this in my city. The only reason I don't have a bike is that we've the most bike path infrastructure near rivers but when you want to navigate the whole city, you've to use roads or sidewalks. I hate the idea of driving amongst cars.
The photo of hte pink cycleway at 5:21 is Auckland New Zealand. It's not just the USA and Europe.
I want a four lane bike freeway, yes, a controlled access bike highway with ramps that are fun to ride down(do yield the right of way though, but don't stop, it'll suck to get the momentum again.)
I love this video, but a slight correction: at 4:50 the scene depicted is actually Austin TX and not Portland OR. It's just something silly I wouldn't have even noticed if I hadn't lived in Austin. Great video! I ride an electric bike as my daily driver while I save up for a car, but even after I get my car I'll still bike for pleasure and work most days anyway because I live in a dense downtown area.
2:10 how?
Local foot/bike trails allows me to play slow or run for exersize without impact damage.
The only bicycle highway is in California in Sunnyvale, look it up, I've been there
*So y’all are just gonna ignore Mackinac Island Michigan, the island that banned cars and you only travel by bike? Mk.*
It's irrelevant to the video. You don't need a "highway" for a single island.
0:26 "countryside" showing a map of the Ruhr-valley one of the most densely populated areas in Europe... Right
Love biking and it feels dangerous every time... (Ottawa Canada)
Suburban sprawl is a global phenomenon, but in few places is it as bad as in the US.
You can have the nicest cycling highways imaginable, when destinations like schools, shops, work and friends are more than about 6 miles away a large number of people won't willing to cycling these distances on a daily basis.
So unless the US abandons it's low density construction, cycling for commuting won't really catch on.
If you use bikes and trains as your transportation methods in cities you don't need cars even in low density areas
I don't really like to bike. That being said, I understand why I pay for the bike infrastructure and why in my car I can't always take the shortest route. If all people on bikes were also in a car, it would make my car-ride a lot less fast and a lot more expensive. Simply put: good cycle infra is the cheapest, healthiest and most eco friendly way to enable cars to go when they need and to move people to where they want and need to go.
0:19 ... and avoid Kensington and Chelsea. No seriously, the borough council originally refused to allow cycle highways on their land prompting the idea of building a bridge over the uncooperative council.
(They're the same buggers who lead to the Grenfell tower disaster, so cycle routes isn't the biggest problem with them).
There is an island in Florida called Sanibel and the main type of transportation is going on bike
I have a "bike highway" to the next few towns over and then connecting into a suburb in the next small city. im from Ontario. Barely anyone uses it so it's a nice ride.
Distances are more vast in the US too. I’m 30 miles from my office, and couldn’t afford to live closer if I tried (and I’d love to). I’m not biking 60 miles round trip each day…
:-(
Basiclly, US American towns are a great Ponzi scheme: czcams.com/video/7IsMeKl-Sv0/video.html
Don't worry. My city (Krakow, Poland) is also few decades behind west Europe. We have only few short pieces of bike highway.
Can you please enable closed captioning for this video? Or try watching it without audio and see how well you understand it.
These bike highways have a big problem: They're not very useful if you don't have extensive, much more basic infrastructure in place already (dense network of save bicycle lanes).
This is essentially the same problem as with high speed trains in the US: The lack of a network that feeds these structures.
These big, flashy (and expensive) projects like this may sound good to a certain audience, but the US, and many other countries btw, have a lot of low hanging fruit to grab first.
just redesign your road or street when you repave it to whatever is suitable
I use a power assist e-bike for groceries, haircuts and all small item shoping. If it is too big, out comes my car (new back door, 5 cases of soda, etc.).
Soon i will add an inverter to charge all batteries from my 100 amp LiFePO4 batt + solar + large battery. My tv, lightinng and cell phones are alreadty are on solar.
I wish we could have pedestrian highways. Or maybe tunnels. It's just so hard to walk anywhere.
you wish you had this
czcams.com/video/9OfBpQgLXUc/video.html
There's no point walking anywhere unless there is something to walk to. Unfortunately everything is built to the scale of cars, making walking anywhere specific take forever.
Well considering how popular electric personal transport like e scooters are getting, makes sense for them to actually be able to drive somewhere without having to ride in traffic.
Look what the Dutch did
2:09 What? How was that bicycle floating?
Do you know that Taiwan has the most bike hiway in the world, 2000 plus km and growing.
Some are above the river with astonishing view.
here before Not Just Bikes