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What can Seattle learn from Dutch street design?

Seattle landscape architect Fred Young gives an hour-long visual tour of Dutch cycling infrastructure, covering design details, continuous networks and how cycling fits daily life in the Netherlands.

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Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it as an in-depth tech talk for urban planning, full of small design touches that make cycling safer.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
UniversityGreenways
Topic
dutch cycling infrastructure
Format
talk
Level
general
HN recommenders in dataset
3
HN mentions in dataset
8
Recommendation years in dataset
2014–2021

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • This is an overview of how the Dutch do it as presented by a city planning guy from Seattle. Lengthy, but I was glued to the screen. [VIDEO]

    raarts on Hacker News · 2016-08
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  • For those interested in this, I can highly recommend "What Seattle can learn from Dutch street design" [1]. It's a presentation that gives an overview of all sorts of small infrastructural measures, similar to the Queens Boulervard redesign, taken in the Netherlands to prevent traffic …

    Vinnl on Hacker News · 2018-08
    In New York’s success provides road map for others taking aim at pedestrian deaths

  • Here's a great talk[1] about all the clever bike infrastructure in the Netherlands, and how it can be adapted to work in Seattle specifically. It's a great in depth look for anyone interested in this stuff, basically a tech talk for urban planning. Edit: Here's …

    narwally on Hacker News · 2014-06
    In A New Bike Lane That Could Save Lives and Make Cycling More Popular

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