Amsterdam Icon
by Joan Carroll
Title
Amsterdam Icon
Artist
Joan Carroll
Medium
Photograph - Digital Art
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If you are a pedestrian in Amsterdam, especially one from another country where bikes aren't so prevalent or even respected as an integral part of traffic (like the USA), you'd better get used to looking for both cars and bikes before you cross the street! Don't step off a curb into the street until you have checked for both cars and bikes. Bikes are truly part of the traffic flow and there are many miles of dedicated bike lanes, even dedicated traffic lights. Amsterdam is one of the most bicycle friendly cities in the world and someone riding a bike in Amsterdam might be considered an iconic image! Amsterdammers, however, are not thinking 'iconic' as they go about their day! In Amsterdam, over 60% of trips are made by bike in the inner city and 40% of trips are made by bike overall in the greater city area. However, info on Wikipedia states that: "By 2012, cycling in Amsterdam had grown tremendously in popularity, up by some 40% in the previous twenty years. The city had 490,000 cyclists take to the road to cycle 2 million kilometres every day according to statistics of the city council. This has caused some problems as, despite 35,000 kilometers of bicycle paths, the country's 18 million bicycles were clogging Amsterdam's streets at peak times and parked bicycles were overcrowding train stations and other areas. This is being addressed by building even more bike lanes and bicycle parking stations with much greater capacity to tackle a problem many other cities in the world would envy, that of bicycle traffic congestion.
FEATURED PHOTO, Old MASTERS - PHOTOGRAPHERS and DIGITAL ARTS - 1 a Day group, 7/12/15
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July 5th, 2015
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