Urban Cycling Institute 🚲 

@fietsprofessor • 95,889 subscribers

Bringing science on cycling to practice & back | Main contributor Marco te Brömmelstroet | Urban Cycling Institute | MOOC: https://t.co/hIqOuqPwoI

Shorts

1,673,038 views

79,978 views

79,767 views

599,734 views

473,388 views

141,909 views

118,865 views

16,784 views

104,854 views

41,731 views

88,165 views

80,058 views

82,944 views

27,271 views

21,181 views

20,966 views

12,520 views

Videos

sweetdream.ai

Watch Anya Live

Anya is streaming live right now! Join her private show and enjoy exclusive content.

Private Show

Join now for exclusive access

Free preview available • Premium content

351,221 views • 3 months ago

32,330 views • 10 days ago

510,878 views • 6 months ago

56,847 views • 28 days ago

This media may contain sensitive content.

345,714 views • 1 year ago

129,550 views • 6 months ago

28,020 views • 1 month ago

87,956 views • 5 months ago

427,264 views • 2 years ago

46,326 views • 2 months ago

352,545 views • 2 years ago

411,474 views • 3 years ago

86,710 views • 6 months ago

44,872 views • 3 months ago

306,770 views • 2 years ago

286,743 views • 2 years ago

10,528 views • 19 days ago

292,963 views • 3 years ago

Live Cam

Urban Cycling Institute 🚲 

Shorts

With #snow❄️ Mother Nature reveals how much we over-designed our streets for cars. If we learn to look carefully, she also inspires us to create healthier and more equitable streets for all! - Philadelphia🇺🇸, S 4th &amp; Monroe St. (📸 by Drew Kaiser | Animation by Oto Ozols)

'Don't build bicycle paths', they said. 'Cycling will never work here', they said. 'This is London, not Amsterdam', they said. ↗️ 43% increase in cycling since 2019 📈 1.5 million bike trips per day 🚲 From niche to mainstream (🎞️ of London🇬🇧 by Marcos M. 🇵🇸)

🗣️'Just getting a sandwich, be right back!' If cyclists would behave as car drivers: (🎞️ by Philip Schwartz)

Schrödinger's road space: How you can take away space from cars and give them more space at the same time! (original by 21st Century City, redesigned by @jan_kamensky)

Periodic reminder that building bicycle lanes is not a technical challenge. It is a political one!

Periodic reminder that building bike lanes is not a technical challenge. It is a political one!

The future of our urban streets are not a given. Time to make a choice! (by URB / Baharesh Bagherian)

🏙️ All cities make mistakes. 🤔 Good cities learn from them. 💪 But only GREAT cities fix them. Gemeente Utrecht took out 1970s car infrastructure to let the water of the #Catharijnesingel return. (by The Lab of Thought)

No longer want to be stuck in car traffic? Or do you worry about its impacts on climate, health or society? Here is the solution you should push for. Not newer cars. Fewer cars. 🚌🚲🚶‍♀️🤸🧑‍🦽🌳

For better streets, we do not need more space. We also do not need new technologies or tools. What we need is imagination and courage. -#Sheffield, via Biophylic Design

Dutch finding: 🦖+🚲=😁 'Seeing a dinosaur cycling by, makes everybody at least 17% happier' —@LucasReinds

Do you want your street to be designed for people, or for their cars? What better way to Illustrate these options than in a beautiful cargobike installation. (by Jan Yoshiyuki Tanaka)

All cities make mistakes. Good cities recognize them. But it takes true leadership to actually fix them! 📍 #Catharijnensingel, #Utrecht

We are gonna call it: One more lane will fix it! (🎞️: #London🇬🇧 cycling boom during tube strike)

'Cycling cities are all fun and game, but what about people with disabilities?' This visually impaired gentleman👨‍🦼 illustrates how cycling infra creates not less but MORE equity. Reducing car dependence offers more mobility choices to more people.

You can have... 🚲🚌 either an efficient urban mobility system. 🚗🚘 or streets for moving and storing cars. Time to choose! —Vredenburg, #Utrecht (by Mark Wagenbuur)

Videos

Watch Anya Live

When in 2007 the mayor of #Ljubljana proposed to close 12 hectares of its city center to private cars, just 40% of residents approved. A decade later, no less than 97% were against reopening to motor traffic: “None of us can really imagine cars ever staging a comeback”.

Faced with the inevitable bottleneck, bicycles will always outperform cars. No matter if electric, autonomous or shared; they cannot deny the laws of physics. Instead of driverless cars, our cities desperately need more carless drivers! ( 🎞️ of #giroditalia via Adam Tranter)

Our cities weren't built for the car. They were actively destroyed for it. 🍿 Come and join the screening of a documentary by Segregation_by_Design about the tremendous effort to build the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. 🎞️: Dec 8th, 17:30 📍: Berlagezalen, TU Delft 🫰: 🆓 👇Sign up info

'Don't blame having a child for the need to buy a car. Blame your city leaders for making it impossible to cycle safely with children.' —Lior Steinberg (🎞️ of Den Bosch🇳🇱 by Mark Wagenbuur)

Sensitive content

If government fails you, there is always the opportunity to act. Bike lane painting skills 💯 by Xavier Treviño Theesz

The Dutch don't arrive by bike at the train. They arrive by train at their bike! 🚆 50% of train travellers come by bike. 🚲 33K bike parking spots at Utrecht CS. 💰 Annual investment in cycling: €510 million. 👩‍⚕️ Annual health savings: €19 billion. (@defilmendefietser)

You know you have a mainstream cycling culture if this is how helmets👷 and hi-viz🦺 are used to support -instead of hamper- the active lifestyle of children. Meet Johan Zandvliet (68). Making most of his job in #Zwolle🇳🇱.

'#Siri: please give me a visual metaphor for the status of cycling infrastructure in the United States' Yes, that is an actual bike path. Yes, those are actually 8 protected lanes for driving. — Lakeshore Drive, #Chicago

For weeks we were told Parisians would punish the city’s street transformation. The election results tell a different story. Pluralistic ignorance: when many quietly support something but assume others don't. Safer and greener public space may be far more popular than we think.

"It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them." —Miguel Anxo F. Lores, Mayor of #Pontevedra🇪🇸 (re-elected SIX time)

'Nice idea, those human oriented streets, but what about when emergency vehicles have to get through?!!?'

🚗 The illusion of a large parking lot: While the trip to a suburban mall might actually be longer than to a restaurant downtown, the layout of the parking lot tricks us: the store entrance is visible, making the distance seem shorter. (🎞️ by Streetcraft)

What the Dutch? Printing pavement for smooth surfaces! 🤯🇳🇱

'When in 2007 #Ljubljana closed 12 hectares of its city center to private cars, just 40% of residents approved. A decade later, no less than 97% were against reopening to motor traffic: “None of us can really imagine cars ever staging a comeback”.' —Melissa & Chris Bruntlett

New study finds 'cycling rather than driving is positively associated with political participation, social participation in organizations, neighbourhood solidarity, and neighbourly helpfulness (i.e. the common good).' 📕:

Selling social isolation as freedom to people has been one of the most impressive marketing stunts of the 20th century. (🎞️ actual car commercial for the Saturn Ion car)

Utrecht builds biggest 'car-free' neighbourhood in Merwedekanaalzone: 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 10.000 inhabitants 🚲 21.500 bicycles 🏙️ High density/diversity 🌞 Energy-neutral 🚗 Shared mobility 🌳 Abundant green spaces 🍏 Communal gardens 👩‍🔧 Neighbourhood janitor By NRC:

With #snow❄️ Mother Nature reveals how much we over-designed our streets for cars. If we learn to look carefully, she also inspires us to create healthier and more equitable streets for all! - Philadelphia🇺🇸, S 4th & Monroe St. (📸 by Drew Kaiser | Animation by Oto Ozols)