<story><title>Burgeoning bike cities emerge across America</title><url>https://www.axios.com/burgeoning-biking-cities-america-298240b8-913e-4c59-8da3-8ea0167bbf54.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CalRobert</author><text>A very important topic, but this article is almost nothing!&lt;p&gt;Regardless, this is hugely important. My wife and I have two little kids (under 5) and we really, really want them to be independent young people when they&amp;#x27;re a little older. I want them to be able to hop on their bikes and ride to the shop, school, the train&amp;#x2F;metro&amp;#x2F;bus, etc. and most of all, I want them to survive. Drivers are the leading cause of dead kids, and deaths among vulnerable road users (pedestrians, cyclists, etc.) have risen dramatically in the US in the last couple years.&lt;p&gt;There are approximately 0 places in the US meeting this bar. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;culdesac.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;culdesac.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; near Phoenix is interesting but 1) very small and 2) in Phoenix, which will struggle with summer survivability by the time my kids are middle ages.&lt;p&gt;American Fietser - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;AmericanFietser&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;AmericanFietser&lt;/a&gt; - has been beating the drum for Carmel, Indiana, which apparently has made great strides in their downtown - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=94-kxjgOtdU&amp;amp;feature=youtu.be&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=94-kxjgOtdU&amp;amp;feature=youtu.be&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I grew up in suburban Sacramento and it was basically a prison. I _did_ ride my bike when I was 14 and older, dozens of miles in some cases, but in retrospect it&amp;#x27;s shocking I lived. I was nearly killed in multiple instances.&lt;p&gt;I chatted briefly with Jason Slaughter of NotJustBikes fame (maybe the best urbanist channel on youtube) and he was very reassuring about moving to Amsterdam with kids older than my own. I just got naturalised as an EU citizen and Utrecht in particular is on the short list. But I hope US cities can improve.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>addy13</author><text>As someone that moved to Utrecht five years ago (and also from California)....you could not have picked a better place. Infrastructure is amazing and quality of life is superb. Of course not everything is perfect and cost of living has sky rocketed but I assume you work in tech and everything will be fine. There&amp;#x27;s quite a lot of high quality cities but Utrecht is really nice (although the Netherlands is a bit boring but that&amp;#x27;s subjective of course).</text></comment>
<story><title>Burgeoning bike cities emerge across America</title><url>https://www.axios.com/burgeoning-biking-cities-america-298240b8-913e-4c59-8da3-8ea0167bbf54.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>CalRobert</author><text>A very important topic, but this article is almost nothing!&lt;p&gt;Regardless, this is hugely important. My wife and I have two little kids (under 5) and we really, really want them to be independent young people when they&amp;#x27;re a little older. I want them to be able to hop on their bikes and ride to the shop, school, the train&amp;#x2F;metro&amp;#x2F;bus, etc. and most of all, I want them to survive. Drivers are the leading cause of dead kids, and deaths among vulnerable road users (pedestrians, cyclists, etc.) have risen dramatically in the US in the last couple years.&lt;p&gt;There are approximately 0 places in the US meeting this bar. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;culdesac.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;culdesac.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; near Phoenix is interesting but 1) very small and 2) in Phoenix, which will struggle with summer survivability by the time my kids are middle ages.&lt;p&gt;American Fietser - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;AmericanFietser&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;AmericanFietser&lt;/a&gt; - has been beating the drum for Carmel, Indiana, which apparently has made great strides in their downtown - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=94-kxjgOtdU&amp;amp;feature=youtu.be&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=94-kxjgOtdU&amp;amp;feature=youtu.be&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I grew up in suburban Sacramento and it was basically a prison. I _did_ ride my bike when I was 14 and older, dozens of miles in some cases, but in retrospect it&amp;#x27;s shocking I lived. I was nearly killed in multiple instances.&lt;p&gt;I chatted briefly with Jason Slaughter of NotJustBikes fame (maybe the best urbanist channel on youtube) and he was very reassuring about moving to Amsterdam with kids older than my own. I just got naturalised as an EU citizen and Utrecht in particular is on the short list. But I hope US cities can improve.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>NicoJuicy</author><text>Belgium also has excellent biking infrastructure!&lt;p&gt;If you look at Bruges, there&amp;#x27;s literally a cycling junction underneath a busy turnaround or cycling bridges going over busy highway roads ( those are there when your enter&amp;#x2F;exit the city)&lt;p&gt;Throughout the city, most roads are one-way, while bycicles can go two-ways. So bicycling is literally the most efficient way to cross the city.&lt;p&gt;Eg. To my work, it&amp;#x27;s a 5 minute trip with the bicycle because there is a bicycle route to it. With the car, the road takes 10 minutes ( normally 20 because of traffic). So it&amp;#x27;s x 4 as efficient for me&lt;p&gt;Reproducible: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.google.be&amp;#x2F;maps&amp;#x2F;dir&amp;#x2F;Marie+Popelinplantsoen,+8000+Brugge&amp;#x2F;Vaartdijkstraat,+8200+Brugge&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.google.be&amp;#x2F;maps&amp;#x2F;dir&amp;#x2F;Marie+Popelinplantsoen,+8000+...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>