In 2019, Amsterdam published their plan to become a (nearly) car-free city. Seven years later, have they done what they said they would?
Not Just BIkes — The Amazing Plan for a (nearly) Car-Free Amsterdam
https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-the-amazing-plan-for-a-nearly-carfree-amsterdam
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HubertManne@piefed.social · 2 pts · 2d
walking is my prefered way to get places. no overhead with locks and such. like the bike sharing when its set fee and ride as much as you want/need. next public transit.
Zagorath@quokk.au · 1 pts · 1d
I really wish you could do that thing some video games do with horses where you can just summon it and it magically appears next to you, but for bikes...and IRL. Because yeah, carrying the locks and fussing around with places to lock it up (not to mention the fear it gets stolen anyway) is a pain.
But cycling is also like 4 times the speed of walking, so unless my trip is less than one kilometre, it's just such a no brainer compared to walking.
I even find that in places with good infrastructure, a fit person can ride at roughly the same average speed as a bus. It obviously goes much faster, but the frequent stopping lets a bike catch up.
My city used to have a docked bike share system. $2 to get as many trips as you want within 24 hours, as long as each trip is less than 30 minutes. It was operated by advertising company JCDecaux in exchange for them having the right to place ads on council buses, on billboards, and as street furniture. Sadly, they got rid of it in late 2020...but let JCDecaux keep the ad space. They promised a replacement would be "coming soon". But their idea of a replacement is private companies with dockless escooters and ebikes. They're $1 flagfall and then $0.60 per minute after that. In practice, a whole order of magnitude more expensive than the old CityCycle was. Very disappointing.
HubertManne@piefed.social · 2 pts · 1d
My city has somewhat of the same issue. They did not get rid of it but they brought in a bunch of e-bikes which have that minute cost and now you can go to a rack and there are no standard manual bikes. It was to bad to because they had a yearly membership where you did not need to pay the initial fee as it was wrapped up in the membership and the yearly cost was about as much as a one month transit pass.
mjr@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 3d
Zagorath@quokk.au · 1 pts · 2d
That's the video after this one.
mjr@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 2d
Sorry, Lemmy app going wrong.
Zagorath@quokk.au · 1 pts · 2d
Probably not. I never submitted the latest video, and unless my instance is playing up, nobody else did either.
mjr@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 2d
I had two posts open in different tabs and the comment went to the other tab.