This is a bit of a repeat for long-time viewers to the channel, but I wanted to share again the best part of pedestrian infrastructure in the Netherlands: continuous sidewalks.
These sidewalks are much safer and more comfortable, as they do not require pedestrians to drop down to street level, and it ensures that drivers slow down before crossing paths with pedestrians.
If there’s one piece of Dutch street design that your city should copy today, it’s continuous sidewalks.
My original full-length video about continuous sidewalks is here: https://youtu.be/9OfBpQgLXUc
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This is a bit of a repeat, but it's worth repeating, because continuous sidewalks are great.
My original full-length video about continuous sidewalks is here: https://youtu.be/9OfBpQgLXUc
America is a car place. Doing this on America would wreck havoc and force an immediate reversal.
There is almost 0 foot traffic in my city so continuous sidewalks don’t make sense, they would just slow down traffic, I can only see this in cities with high foot traffic
I would like this we have similar sidewalks in sweden but its a hard bump for cars so your always afraid of your car getting damage
It’s very clear that you should move there because you’re so unhappy with the North American construction bye
This is a cool idea. I don't think it would work in America.
I'm sorry you're smaller than the vehicle it's the same thing with motorcyclists you're smaller than me you should be the one paying attention. I'm not saying the driver shouldn't pay attention either but I always hate it when I see those signs of work out for motorcyclists I'm bigger than you you should definitely be able to notice me. Same thing goes for car drivers in semis I'm sorry the semi is bigger than you he can't see you when you're in his blind spot.
Here in my city in Brazil this is very common, they started doing this on school zones, now there is a bunch of them all around the city where people should have priority crossing the street, incredibly, everyone respect this, even the most idiotic person
Well done! this video is awesome! Thanks for sharing. https://youtu.be/2q9Xy57_gyA
Yes, let’s imagine driving in America with a speed bump before every intersection so my commute to work would be even longer and my shocks would be shot after 2 months.
10.000 comments of people who just dont get Europe.
That would be horrible in America
Well that's just how we dutch be 😎
Just curious, what happens if you are blind?
Just gonna say that you should be cautious in an area that frequently has 2 or 3 ton steel boxes passing though at decent speed. While drivers are supposed to watch for pedestrians no matter what nation you live in there are some who don't care, simple human nature. Also this makes it so a person not paying attention may very well step into the path of a car with spectacularly painful results.
Heaven for pedestrian, hell for low riders
Looks more dangerous.
Why the drivers like you can step down it won't hurt but imagine if anywhere it is abit bigger and somone slams the bottom of their car or just count how many extra usage of the suspension that is
Cyclists are a nightmare for truckers, especially in Holland, as they sit in our blind spots all the time and then blame us for hitting them even though they were in a space they know is dangerous to be in
One of these appeared in my locale in London and I asked a passing policeman who has right of way, and he did not know.
In essence, Europe is smarter/better than America
How does the pedestrian know to look up from their phone if they are on a continuous sidewalk?
the real question is
"why the dutch cross the street"
Is it actually statistically safer? It makes sense. In Kentucky law at least, pedestrians have priority on an official sidewalk, and this design would match that.
Ok, that is very interesting but what we all want to know is "why did the Dutch crossed the street?" That's the real question needing to be answered
Might be safer but it hinders traffic slow. All those vehicles have to slow down a go across all those stupid sidewalk, which also acts as a speed bump, even when people aren’t walking across it. Every intersection they have to slow down and go across the crosswalk or risk damaging their suspension. The American way is better. We have crosswalks and people have to stop and make sure her car is not coming or wait for the walk / don’t walk sign to light up, before crossing.
id love to live in the netherlands, but it just looks old and shitty and dutchy.
Great unless you have a drunk driver with a huge Toyota 4 runner going at high speed….
Sidewalk would turn in a blood walk
It's still an amazing system and that's one of the reasons why i wanna go visit the Netherlands it seems freaking awesome in term of ideas and creativity with good architecture 🙂
In my place is the same but the pedestrian sidewalk is insanely high so cars encounter a big bump
There's a few places in my city in British Columbia that have this, but it's super rare.
Wow, I got to stop watching these videos. I am a bike nerd, sort of and love bikes and biking, walking. They are so far ahead of us …
I will say my home town has walkable streets and lots of new bike lanes are adding. I will say there is no barrier , buy they are pretty wide and marked. Only problem I'd if you ride far enough then bike lane ends. The only problem , I don't see many bikers , nor walkers even though there are many bike lanes . If the old downtown area gets reactivated it would really be bikeable/walkable.
Yes, the basic idea is great but somehow the people that are responsible for designing the public space are going out of their way to make sure that the difference between the sidewalk and road is not as clear as it should be…
The fact that this 60-second clip is your most watched video by over 40% really shows the state of video entertainment today.
The traffic here looks insane though and clearly only works with a certain population size
What about painted sidewalk-continuations?
Can we just destroy america?
Almost got seriously injured on a sloped sidewalk coming from the street, it was sloped very agressively and I was riding with no hands as its more comfortable to sit straight up which bikes in north america are not designed for, it was dark and I didn’t see how sharply sloped it was and got thrown off going about 25mph. Somehow came away with just some scraped up knees.