Traffic calming, bridges, and underpasses
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ส.ค. 2021
- I had a chance to visit Boulder, Colorado, the official home of Active Towns, in June 2021. While riding around town, I noticed some exciting new bike, pedestrian, and mobility safety projects, so naturally, it made sense to pull out the camera and capture it for you all to enjoy.
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- Boulder 30th St and Colorado Ave underpass bouldercolorado.gov/projects/...
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👍👍👍 for Boulder, Colorado!!
@Henkster's Macro-World, They're getting there. Thanks for watching. Cheers! John
That is just so gorgeous!! And that comes from a Dutchlander! 😊
@Vincenzo di Grande, Thanks! They're definitely heading in the right direction. Thanks for watching. Cheers! John
Awesome to see.
Thanks!
you can see the joy on the face of the girl this make mine weekend great
@dick wassenaar, Yes, indeed. Thanks for watching. Cheers! John
I read where a number of viewers nitpick and find things that aren't up to the Dutch standard, but from the viewpoint of a resident, like me, of Yakima, WA and places like it, this is heaven. It is perfect. It is nirvana. It... Well, i'm getting over wrought!🤣
Hehe, yeah. Well, no place is perfect, but I love to celebrate those that put a spirit of continuous learning and improvement. Glad you enjoyed it. Cheers! John
Well, to me as a Dutchman this new biking infrastructure looks so good, that I could inmagine going on vacation in this part of the US and renting a bike for a couple of days! And we should not forget that it took decades to get where we are now with our cycling infrastructure in the Netherlands ! So, not bad for a start!
@@johansilwouden3403 Thanks so much... yes, we're getting there. In fact, if you haven't seen it yet... I have an entire playlist highlighting activities in Austin, Texas you might find interesting: bit.ly/AustinDutchBikePlaylist Cheers! John
@@ActiveTowns Yes, I have seen a number of your videos on Austin! I came to your channel through Not Just Bikes, a Canadian TH-camr who mentioned you in one of his vids.
@@johansilwouden3403 Yay! Jason is the Best! 😀
1:36 That is often the Dutch mindset. If accidents at a certain place happen alot and the community complains abour it, we look for solutions to change that so it won't happen again or at least reduce the impact when accidents do happen.
Yes. Boulder actually has a long history of building this type of infrastructure (high-quality underpasses - they are approaching 100 of them now) whereas they have had, historically, more difficulty building protected, separated, and low-speed share space facilities. Hopefully, in the future, these facilities will have an easier time being built. Cheers! John
The Foothills Parkway underpass is less efficient--taking almost a minute longer to navigate on a bike and several minutes longer to navigate on foot--than the sketchy old bridge. It's too bad they couldn't come up with a more compact and less concrete intensive design.
@Tony Apuzzo, I hear ya. The approach from the east side especially seemed a bit longer than necessary compared to other recent more compact designs they have installed. I suspect there could have been some utilities they were striving to work around. Thanks for watching and for the contribution to the conversation. Cheers! John
This is in my neighborhood. The bridge was only more compact because of the sharp turns on the ends (which were nasty on a bike), and the slope was too steep to be compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act. There is another old bridge over Foothills a few blocks to the south that does not have the sharp turns, spans a much longer distance, and seems even more dangerous to people in wheelchairs. This new underpass is awesome and beautiful. I use it to bike to work, or go on walks, and don't see any problems with distance. They had to move the access from the path that runs along the east side of Foothills in order to accommodate the grade descending under Foothills and to avoid having a dangerous intersection right at the tunnel itself. The path coming south along the east side of Foothills could not descend to the tunnel level anyway, because there is an irrigation ditch to cross right before it gets to the tunnel.
Improvements, yes... but a lot of this seems far too narrow, especially if one wants to optimize things for normal and fast e-bikes. That much of it is multi-user doesn't help.
Todd, Yes, good point. The city is systematically making the path wider in the sections that are the busiest - as best as they can given the space available. Here's a photo of a section they've completed bit.ly/3jUxwXE