New NJB: The Weesperstraat Knip
Added 2023-06-30 21:50:39 +0000 UTCSo a few weeks ago, Amsterdam closed one of their most busy roads: Weesperstraat. This is called a "knip". This was a BIG move, even by Amsterdam standards, and the right-wing media and politicians were ready to immediately claim it was a complete failure on the first day. Even though this is only a 6-week trial.
This reaction annoyed me so much that I made this video. I rushed the creation of it in order to get it out as soon as possible (the last scenes were filmed on Tuesday!), just so that I can hopefully sway political opinion ahead of the right-winger's "emergency" meeting on Wednesday.
The Nebula Studios editor was so fast that the thumbnail isn't even ready yet. :)
Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-amsterdam-just-closed-their-busiest-road
YouTube: https://youtu.be/ymcBC7MFRIk
Incidentally, in case you don't know, I have a livestreaming channel: https://youtube.com/@njblive
I live streamed two of my visits to the "knip" in two videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d08ICqIKjwc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7X7g4KPsFc
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2023-07-25 14:00:29 +0000 UTCbtw, they're planning to take my own city of Bergen, Norway, which by the way is the country's most sprawling and car-centric city, in the same direction. Tear up some major streets (up to several are through streets), replace them with rails for the light rail ('Bybanen'), and divide the city centre into three zones, each of which can only be reached from outside the city. Want to go from one zone to another? Leave the city, get on the highway, go around. It's an incredibly ambitious undertaking and it'll make life in the city so much more pleasant. I can't wait. Of course, the usual suspects are doing everything they can to stop this, trying to get the downtown light rail line to go in a tunnel underground so that they can keep driving their cars as before, and arguing that light rail tracks will be a 'barrier' to pedestrians... somehow (apparently, a steady flow of traffic isn't such an impediment, but light rail cars passing with several minutes between them means pedestrians can't cross), and that the sight and noise from light rail cars will 'ruin' downtown. Somehow. All of a sudden they claim they want a 'traffic-free' downtown and that the LR will ruin that dream. Of course, the instant they're not talking about the LR, they go back to whining and screaming about how downtown is dying and the only way to fix that is to add more parking for cars. This pdf has some helpful maps if anyone's interested. https://www.bergen.kommune.no/api/rest/filer/V21158975
Øyvind Wallentinsen
2023-07-09 02:23:41 +0000 UTCYeah, it looks amazing. I just wish it was 2025 instead of 2050. But your tweet is wrong about the arrows. It's not a one-way ring. You should probably take that down to avoid misleading people.
Not Just Bikes
2023-07-08 21:52:35 +0000 UTCIs everyone familiar with page 100 of the Omgevingsvisie 2050? https://twitter.com/rrustema020/status/1655686628550033408
ReindeR Rustema
2023-07-08 21:16:43 +0000 UTC
