{"id":3324,"date":"2013-11-22T09:45:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T13:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/?p=3324"},"modified":"2013-12-09T23:01:15","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T03:01:15","slug":"urban-planet-bicycle-anecdotes-amsterdam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/2013\/11\/22\/urban-planet-bicycle-anecdotes-amsterdam\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Planet: Bicycle Anecdotes from Amsterdam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2422\" alt=\"feature-urban-planet\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/feature-urban-planet.gif\" width=\"600\" height=\"63\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Amsterdam may be seen as a cyclist\u2019s utopia today, but it wasn\u2019t always so. Around the midway point of the century, the Dutch were building their infrastructure mainly for the automobile, just as North Americans cities were (and in many cases still are). But by the mid-\u201870s a pushback came, laying the foundation for much of what people associate with the cycle-friendly city today.<\/p>\n<p><i>Bicycle Anecdotes from Amsterdam <\/i>is a short film that explores the city\u2019s history and shows<i> <\/i>how Amsterdam came to be a leader in cycling infrastructure, despite facing many of the same challenges as other urban centres worldwide. It also provides a good look at some impressive bikeways, as cyclists ride elbow-to-elbow with surprising ease. You can view the video below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/77084110\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Bicycle Anecdotes from Amsterdam\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.streetfilms.org\/bicycle-anecdotes-from-amsterdam\/\" target=\"_blank\">Streetfilms<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Urban Planet is a roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We\u2019ll be on the lookout for websites outside the country that approach themes related to urban experiences and issues.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>For more stories from around the planet, check out Spacing on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Spacing\/111174192229238\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/Spacing\">Twitter<\/a>. Do you have an Urban Planet worthy article you\u2019d like to share? Send the link to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:urbanplanet@spacing.ca\">urbanplanet@spacing.ca<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amsterdam may be seen as a cyclist\u2019s utopia today, but it wasn\u2019t always so. Around the midway point of the century, the Dutch were building their infrastructure mainly for the automobile, just as North Americans cities were (and in many cases still are). But by the mid-\u201870s a pushback came, laying the foundation for much<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/2013\/11\/22\/urban-planet-bicycle-anecdotes-amsterdam\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Urban Planet: Bicycle Anecdotes from Amsterdam&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8207,"featured_media":3330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,409,419,425,426,427,4,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bikes","category-culture","category-infrastructure","category-spacing","category-streetscape","category-traffic","category-transit","category-urban-design"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Urban Planet: Bicycle Anecdotes from Amsterdam  - Spacing National<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/national\/2013\/11\/22\/urban-planet-bicycle-anecdotes-amsterdam\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Urban Planet: Bicycle Anecdotes from Amsterdam  - Spacing National\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Amsterdam may be seen as a cyclist\u2019s utopia today, but it wasn\u2019t always so. 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