Mobility Hubs
In an earlier post, I mentioned how in designing a complete sustainable transportation system, we must design to integrate various modes of sustainable transport rather than focusing solely on one effective mode. Today, we had an opportunity to learn more about how biking and transit work together in the Netherlands. Our instructor is an ex-pat from the United States, who first lived in Southern California, worked as a planner in Hawaii, and now lives in the Netherlands working for a public transit company. Bradley, our instructor for this afternoon, enlightened our group about how bicycle transport has integrated with the regional and inter-city rail services found in the country. Some of my classmates biked from Utrecht to our destination, the community of Zeist, just a bit east of Utrecht. I opted to train both ways to experience the rail service. Taking the Sprinter, which is the regional train between the cities nearby Utrecht, the train ride took only 11 minutes from our outbound...