Separate and Safe: Cycling in Amsterdam from Ted Sweeney on Vimeo.
Amsterdam wasn't always a world-class cycling city. Here's a great piece from Streetsblog San Francisco covering the Dutch evolution to sustainability and what we can learn:
Lessons from Amsterdam: How SF Can Bicycle Toward Greatness
The Dutch are currently touring the U.S. hosting workshops in several major cities, this week in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
The Dutch work with Americans in developing and implementing best-practices in environmentally friendly transportation networks. As we transition from an economy dependent on oil and gas to one driven by renewable energy sources, Dutch and American innovators are leading the way toward the future for sustainable transportation.
A Dutch-US Sustainable Transportation Dialogue
- Nearly 30 percent of trips up to 5 miles are made by bike in the Netherlands. A strong bike policy is integral to Dutch sustainability measures, resulting in less traffic, less pollution and a healthier population. The Netherlands works with North American cities through the multi-city initiative “ThinkBike,” which teams Dutch bike experts with local governments and communities to develop strategies for increased bike-ridership.
- As in the US, the Netherlands aims to have 1 million electric cars on the road by 2015. In support of this goal, the Dutch government has created the “Formula E Team,” a Dutch working group collaborating with American counterparts to share expertise and to develop initiatives designed to increase the adoption of electric vehicles.
You can review the tweets from the San Francisco ThinkBike Workshop by following the hashtag #thinkbikeSF.
I'll be attending the Los Angeles workshop and tweeting the conference @BCN this Thursday and Friday. Follow along on Twitter at #thinkbikeLA. LADOT Bike Program's former assistant coordinator and bike blogger Christopher Kidd provided some excellent coverage of the San Francisco conference @bikeblogchris.
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