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Amsterdam prepares to ‘ban the fatbikes’ amid rise in serious accidents [The Netherlands] (www.theguardian.com)
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The safety organisation VeiligheidNL estimates that 5,000 fatbike riders are treated in A&E [ i.e Accident & Emergency] departments each year, on the basis of a recent sample of hospitals. “And we also see that especially these young people aged from 12 to 15 have the most accidents,” said the spokesperson Tom de Beus.

Now Amsterdam’s head of transport, Melanie van der Horst, has said “unorthodox measures” are needed and has announced that she will ban these heavy electric bikes from city parks, starting in the Vondelpark. Like the city of Enschede, which is also drawing up a city centre ban, she is acting on a stream of requests “begging me to ban the fatbikes”.

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[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 0 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I'd say 15 to 20 minutes.

I would argue that higher education (and universities at the least) can be clustered.

As a note tho: I am not saying that we can just plop this solution in place. It does require pretty intense city planning as well as time.

[–] gian@lemmy.grys.it 1 points 6 hours ago

I’d say 15 to 20 minutes.

Seems a little too much to me.

I would argue that higher education (and universities at the least) can be clustered.

And universities are already clustered (mostly), the problem for someone outside the big cities is the high school: there are many "types" of high schools and in small cities there is not enough students to have one of every type, so you need to move to another small town nearby. And even in big cities like Milan, there is not enough request to have every type of high school at a walkable distance from everyone.

In the end you would need a massive public transportation system (which is good to have anyway) but that must basically work on demand: as long as using a car to do few errands is going to take way less time because trains and buses have a timetable that make you wait 1 hour between them public transportation simply is not really usefull.

As a note tho: I am not saying that we can just plop this solution in place. It does require pretty intense city planning as well as time.

I don't really think you can plan a city this way. Sure, you can try to have a city where you make a car mostly useless for some of the day by day activities but you would not be able to make the car really useless in a city.