A'dam to spend €200m on bike parking, paths
11 years, 1 month ago

A'dam to spend €200m on bike parking, paths

NL Times  

The City of Amsterdam will invest a total of €200 million in the Long-Term Cycle Plan 2012-2016, to combat bicycle related parking issues and improve the cycle network in the City. Overcrowded bike racks near Central Stations and narrow bike lanes, trying to digest an increasing volume of bicycle traffic, bear witness of cycling being a popular, cheap, and important means of transportation in the Netherlands. 'Amsterdam benefits from more people using bikes' and 'increased bicycle usage equates to annual savings of €20 million on public transportation and another € 20 million on car infrastructure,' said alderman Maarten van Poelgeest of traffic, when commenting on the developments. In the Long-Term-Plan 2012-2016 40,000 parking places will be realized underground at Amsterdam Central, along the "Rode Loper" areas, around Leidseplein, and at Mahlerplein near Station South.

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How to Turn Cities Into Biketopias? Make it Harder to Drive There
2 weeks, 6 days ago

How to Turn Cities Into Biketopias? Make it Harder to Drive There

Wired  

A Queens-based bike courier who goes by the mononym of Quentin echoes Berlanga’s sentiment, noting how New York’s streets suddenly feel more spacious than ever. “The Avenues, especially through Midtown, just seem wide open, and you can tell there are so many less cars on the road.” But it’s not only couriers enjoying the City’s less trafficked streets. “Even in …

Work starts on car-free suburb in Utrecht for 12,000 people
3 weeks, 6 days ago

Work starts on car-free suburb in Utrecht for 12,000 people

Dutch News  

The city of Utrecht has started work on a suburb that will have space for 12,000 residents, three schools, two supermarkets, offices, restaurants and a gym – but no cars. Merwede, on the south-western edge of the Netherlands’ fourth largest city, will be the largest car-free suburb in the country when building is completed, with the first residents expected to …

Park for free in Haarlem or Almere, Amsterdam tells motorists
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Park for free in Haarlem or Almere, Amsterdam tells motorists

Dutch News  

Amsterdam city council is recommending that people travelling to the city park their car as far away as Sassenheim, Haarlem, and Almere and continue their journey by public transport – a measure that has irritated councillors in most of the capital’s surrounding towns. Amsterdam, and city transport chief Melanie van der Horst are being accused of dumping the capital’s parking …

Amsterdam set to increase city center parking fee to nearly €8 per hour next year
4 months, 1 week ago

Amsterdam set to increase city center parking fee to nearly €8 per hour next year

NL Times  

Parking fees in the municipality of Amsterdam are expected to swell by about 3.5 percent next year, bringing the rate in the city center up from 7.50 euros per hour to about 7.76 euros. It will bring parking rates in denser and more popular areas just outside the city center up from 6.50 euros hourly to about 6.73 euros, and …

Amsterdam announces investments in public transport, public space; Raising tourist tax
1 year, 10 months ago

Amsterdam announces investments in public transport, public space; Raising tourist tax

NL Times  

Amsterdam is pushing a lot of money into its infrastructure, public transport, youth care, and several projects to make life nicer for locals, like a library in Zuidoost and an indoor swimming pool in Flevopark. The municipality also released money for the National Slavery Museum, according to the Spring Memorandum on the city’s budget alderman Hester van Buren published on …

Video: Amsterdam opens part of new IJ River promenade, 4,000-space bike garage
2 years, 1 month ago

Video: Amsterdam opens part of new IJ River promenade, 4,000-space bike garage

NL Times  

For several years, the space between the bicycle path behind Amsterdam’s Central Station and the IJ River has been obscured by construction material and fencing. A portion of that was cleared away this week as the City of Amsterdam revealed part of a new 6,000 square meter promenade with a perfect, unobstructed view facing the river and Amsterdam-Noord. The city …

Amsterdam Unveils Its Largest-ever Bike Garage. It's Underwater
2 years, 2 months ago

Amsterdam Unveils Its Largest-ever Bike Garage. It's Underwater

News 18  

Plagued by ever-shrinking space to park its hundreds of thousands of bicycles, Amsterdam opened Wednesday the first of its largest-ever bicycle parking complexes, built underwater in a pioneering engineering project. “Together the shelters will be the largest in the city,” the Amsterdam municipality said, with the Open Haven Front storage able to take 7,000 bicycles and the IJ-side site around …

Amsterdam’s largest bicycle parking opens under Central Station
2 years, 2 months ago

Amsterdam’s largest bicycle parking opens under Central Station

NL Times  

State Secretary Vivianne Heijnen officially opened Amsterdam’s largest bicycle garage under Amsterdam Central Station on Thursday. That's why we invest in easy, safe and secure bike parking at railway stations, says @vivianneheijnen at the opening of the new Amsterdam bike parking. Over the past four years, the city also renovated scaffolding and bridges, widened footpaths and bicycle paths, replaced tram …

Video: Amsterdam’s largest bike garage to open under Central Station canal; 7,000 spots
2 years, 2 months ago

Video: Amsterdam’s largest bike garage to open under Central Station canal; 7,000 spots

NL Times  

Amsterdam’s biggest bicycle garage, located under Central Station on Stationplein, will open next week. “The tour boats will soon literally sail above the bicycles.” https://www.facebook.com/gemeenteamsterdam/videos/747526772962330 Building the bicycle garage in such a heavily-trafficked area was quite the challenge, the municipality of Amsterdam said. The Stationplein bicycle garage will be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Once the …

Amsterdam to expand paid parking overnight in the city centre
2 years, 4 months ago

Amsterdam to expand paid parking overnight in the city centre

Dutch News  

Amsterdam council is planning to introduce 24 hour paid parking in the city centre in an effort to stop tourists using their cars as free places to sleep. The measure is one of several the city is planning to take to make sure car users pay ‘a higher contribution to city maintenance.’ The 24/7 plan will cover the entire Centrum …

Amsterdam to expand paid parking overnight in the city centre
2 years, 4 months ago

Amsterdam to expand paid parking overnight in the city centre

Dutch News  

Amsterdam council is planning to introduce 24 hour paid parking in the city centre in an effort to stop tourists using their cars as free places to sleep. The measure is one of several the city is planning to take to make sure car users pay ‘a higher contribution to city maintenance.’ The 24/7 plan will cover the entire Centrum …

Amsterdam neighborhood moves forward with car-free plan
2 years, 9 months ago

Amsterdam neighborhood moves forward with car-free plan

NL Times  

An Amsterdam neighborhood on Frans Halstraat and the surrounding area will soon be entirely redeveloped to create a space "where the car will be a guest," according to the Amsterdam Municipality. In 2018, a total of 600 parking spaces in the neighborhood –– which consists of Frans Halsstraat, Ruysdaelkade, Ferdinand Bolstraat and part of Albert Cuypstraat –– were closed and …

Cyclists and pedestrians struggle to share space in 'corona-proof' cities
4 years, 8 months ago

Cyclists and pedestrians struggle to share space in 'corona-proof' cities

Dutch News  

Cars are out, bikes are in and yes, even on narrow cobblestone paths you need to keep your distance. Utrecht followed Amsterdam’s lead, announcing it would confiscate parking spaces for bike parking. Parking Another Amsterdam resident, who gave her name as Monica Hendricks, was frustrated with the lack of her parking on the street after the city turned several parking …

World’s biggest bike garage opens in Utrecht with 12,500 parking spaces
5 years, 7 months ago

World’s biggest bike garage opens in Utrecht with 12,500 parking spaces

NL Times  

The largest bicycle parking garage in the world is opening in Utrecht on Monday. With 12,656 parking spaces, including 480 spaces for larger or oddly shaped bicycles like cargo bikes and tandems, the parking facility on Utrecht's station square easily breaks the previous record, held by a bike parking garage in Tokyo with 9,400 parking spaces, Trouw reports. Parking in …

The Netherlands Pays People To Bike To Work
6 years, 1 month ago

The Netherlands Pays People To Bike To Work

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING The Netherlands has a pretty good claim to be the world’s foremost cycling nation. The effort to widen the benefit’s take-up is part of a push to boost commuting by bicycle announced last year, with the Dutch government also committing $390 million to expand the country’s cycling infrastructure. “By cycling, you’ll earn, it won’t only benefit your …

Man charged over €6000 for parking 30 minutes in Amsterdam parking lot
6 years, 3 months ago

Man charged over €6000 for parking 30 minutes in Amsterdam parking lot

NL Times  

One man nearly had a heart attack when he went to pay his parking after 30 minutes of shopping in Amsterdam. "I inserted the parking ticket several times, but the machine kept showing that I had to pay 6,058 euros." Bizar bij qpark amsterdam na 1/2 uur boodschappen doen bjj @alberthein €6050 parkeerkosten pic.twitter.com/eGkggU3RBn — Vincent Everts December 23, 2018 …

Millions invested into promoting cycling in Netherlands
6 years, 4 months ago

Millions invested into promoting cycling in Netherlands

NL Times  

The Dutch provinces, transport regions and municipalities are pushing 245 million euros into getting more people to use their bicycles to get to work. In June State Secretary Stientje van Veldhoven of Infrastructure announced that the government is investing 100 million euros into measures to promote cycling, RTL Nieuws reports. New bicycle shelters will be built at Amsterdam Central Station, …

Amsterdam increasing parking fees to "improve the quality of life"
6 years, 4 months ago

Amsterdam increasing parking fees to "improve the quality of life"

NL Times  

The municipality of Amsterdam is "raising parking fees to improve the quality of life", the city said in a press release on Thursday. We will use the extra parking fees to invest in mobility and to improve the quality of the infrastructure and public space in the city." The municipality hopes that the higher parking fees will encourage residents and …

Amsterdam cracks down on unauthorized bike-sharing
7 years, 6 months ago

Amsterdam cracks down on unauthorized bike-sharing

NL Times  

With reporting by Janene Pieters. The city of Amsterdam is beginning to crack down on unauthorized bike-sharing in the Dutch capital, traffic alderman and deputy mayor Pieter Litjens said to NL Times. The municipality is notifying unsanctioned bike sharing companies this week that they need to collect their bicycles off of city streets. According to Litjens, many of the unsanctioned …

Amsterdam to remove shared bikes parked in public spaces
7 years, 7 months ago

Amsterdam to remove shared bikes parked in public spaces

NL Times  

The municipality of Amsterdam will soon start removing shared bicycles left parked in public spaces, the municipality said in a press statement. Public spaces may not be used as a place of issue and bike sharing companies that do so are hindering city traffic by using up the already scarce bicycle parking, according to the city. "We do not want …

Dutch railways want more bike parking at train stations; Public bike share struggles to meet demand
7 years, 9 months ago

Dutch railways want more bike parking at train stations; Public bike share struggles to meet demand

NL Times  

ProRail and NS are calling on the government to invest in better bike parking facilities at train stations. Existing facilities need to be better deployed and the use of public bike sharing must be encouraged, according to the two rail companies. Though bike sharing seems to need little encouragement - the demand for shared bikes was 35 percent higher in …

New bicycle parking planned for Amsterdam CS; to hold 4,000 bikes
8 years ago

New bicycle parking planned for Amsterdam CS; to hold 4,000 bikes

NL Times  

The municipality of Amsterdam is planning to build a new large bicycle parking garage on the IJ, near Amsterdam Central Station that will be able to hold over 4 thousand bicycles. The new parking garage will be located underground and will replace the rusty bicycle platform on the northwest side and the current bicycle ferry directly behind the train station. …

'Dutch nature is so planned out but bike parking is totally random'
8 years, 10 months ago

'Dutch nature is so planned out but bike parking is totally random'

Dutch News  

Romanian national Irina Damascan, 26, came to the Netherlands two years ago, failed to get the job she was after and decided to stay anyway. She’s now co-founder of a company trying to revolutionise the Dutch relationship with their bikes, is planning to take a second master’s degree in architecture and will never forget how her boss reacted when she …

'Dutch nature is so planned out but bike parking is totally random'
8 years, 10 months ago

'Dutch nature is so planned out but bike parking is totally random'

Dutch News  

Romanian national Irina Damascan, 26, came to the Netherlands two years ago, failed to get the job she was after and decided to stay anyway. She’s now co-founder of a company trying to revolutionise the Dutch relationship with their bikes, is planning to take a second master’s degree in architecture and will never forget how her boss reacted when she …

Car parking fees go up again, Amsterdam is most expensive
10 years ago

Car parking fees go up again, Amsterdam is most expensive

Dutch News  

Four in 10 Dutch local authorities have raised parking fees this year and the average increase is 6%, retail association Detailhandel Nederland said on Thursday. The Parool said on Wednesday that motorists contributed €170m to the city’s coffers through parking fees last year. In total last year, Cition staff scanned 30 million number plates as part of the new automated …

Car parking fees go up again, Amsterdam is most expensive
10 years ago

Car parking fees go up again, Amsterdam is most expensive

Dutch News  

Four in 10 Dutch local authorities have raised parking fees this year and the average increase is 6%, retail association Detailhandel Nederland said on Thursday. The Parool said on Wednesday that motorists contributed €170m to the city’s coffers through parking fees last year. In total last year, Cition staff scanned 30 million number plates as part of the new automated …

Underground parking for 7,000 bikes opening at Amsterdam Centraal
10 years, 1 month ago

Underground parking for 7,000 bikes opening at Amsterdam Centraal

NL Times  

Amsterdam mayor Eberhard van der Laan and the city's aldermen want to build a large, underground bicycle parking garage for 7,000 bikes on the south side of Amsterdam Centraal Station. Cost of the new garage has not yet been revealed, but it would likely fall under the Long-Term Cycle Plan announced last year, in which the city said it intends …

Utrecht named world's best cycling city
10 years, 7 months ago

Utrecht named world's best cycling city

NL Times  

According to a CNN list of the world's best cycling cities, which rewards aspiration, ambition and progress, Utrecht is featured as the best city in The Netherlands, among other surprising cities in the world. Instead, Utrecht's city planning is just as friendly to bicycles, and is considered safe enough, even as a big city, for families to bike through. With …

One-third of Amsterdam city trips are made by bike, pressure on parking
10 years, 11 months ago

One-third of Amsterdam city trips are made by bike, pressure on parking

Dutch News  

One-third of trips made in Amsterdam are by bike, by far the highest percentage in Europe, according to a new report on the economic and health benefits of cycling by the UN’s and the World Health Organisation’s European offices. The report says over 76 600 people would be employed in green and healthy transport every year and 10,000 lives would …

One-third of Amsterdam city trips are made by bike, pressure on parking
10 years, 11 months ago

One-third of Amsterdam city trips are made by bike, pressure on parking

Dutch News  

One-third of trips made in Amsterdam are by bike, by far the highest percentage in Europe, according to a new report on the economic and health benefits of cycling by the UN’s and the World Health Organisation’s European offices. The report says over 76 600 people would be employed in green and healthy transport every year and 10,000 lives would …

Car park costs on the rise; A'dam highest priced
11 years ago

Car park costs on the rise; A'dam highest priced

NL Times  

Parking now costs on average €2.73, this has risen by 26 percent in the last four years according to Detailhandel Nederland, who studied 80 parking garages. Detailhandel Nederland is claiming some of the blame can go to 'secret' costs at parking garages; the prices remain the same while your actual parking time is less. Parking garage Markenhoven in Amsterdam now …

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