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New NJB: The Weesperstraat Knip

🕑 Added 2023-06-30 21:50:39 +0000 UTC

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Hello everyone, im posting something unrelated to this topic but just wanted to say that the logo of the channel is on R/Place which is awsome!

Øyvind Wallentinsen

btw, 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

Not Just Bikes

Yeah, 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.