Rage-Free Rush Hour in Utrecht
From Infrastructurist by way of Buzzfeed comes this video of bike commuters in Utrecht. With a population of around 300,000, Utrecht is the fourth largest city in the Netherlands, and has a 33 percent bike mode share. According to the write-up accompanying the YouTube post, this intersection handles “no less than” 18,000 bicycles and 2,500 buses per day.
Entrancing as it is, we did manage to wonder what this scene would look like if all these people were driving. Probably something like this:
Atlantic and Flatbush time lapse from tracy collins on Vimeo.
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