The Amazing Urbanism of Prague
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A fun diversion as I'm working on the next video. I finally found a use for the collection of images and photos I saved over the years. Big thanks to https://mestemnakole.cz/ for sending some more my way! If you like my stuff, consider supporting me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/adamsomething My second channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/AdamSomethingElse The two videos from Prague Hates Cyclists: https://twitter.com/praguecycling/status/1710000410499387459 https://twitter.com/praguecycling/status/1698628453224915443 The audio is from this video by@DrWhite https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3p_VuPIS2c&ab_channel=DrWhite (I asked for his permission in advance, no need to @ hbomberguy)

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  • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    I think Prague was just not destined to be a bike city. Even if the bike lanes were perfect, You’ve still got a ton of hills in all directions

    • eLJay@lemmy.ml
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      11 months ago

      It’s just not destined to ever be a ‘bike w/out 2 operating brakes’ city. Unless the hill grades are 20% I suppose. But even then an argument could be made against cars since hills drastically reduce their efficiency.

      • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml
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        11 months ago

        Hmm fair point. But even if you have breaks the average person doesn’t want to have to bike uphill all the time and even so the city is too vast for biking to be time-effective. Most people use the tram network instead (which goes up the hills)

        Just to illustrate this is what the hills over here look like:

  • Kyrgizion@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    You know how Belgium does this? Designate the entire length of the road as “bike priority street”, which means 30km/h max and no passing the bikes. Doesn’t require a scrap of extra planning, construction or what have you.

    Sure, you put the bikers at the mercy of the drivers, but hey, gotta know what to sacrifice.