ReindeR Rustema

Inwoner van Amsterdam. Fietser, zelden auto. Also @rrustema (for everyone about everything minus Amsterdam).

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2025-04-27 15:30:41

As important as snow ploughs are in Canada are the street brushes on bike lanes after King’s Day in Amsterdam. All those broken bottles! @nprofile…g8y8
https://mastodon.nl/system/media_attachments/files/114/410/636/296/410/772/original/0e380cdc3d750032.mp4

2025-04-10 08:26:49

@nprofile…g8y8 In the sixties Houten wanted to protect the quiet character of the village when it was chosen by the government to expand. Bike lanes as a conditional backbone for traffic were negotiated by the elders of Houten. Currently 450 professional visitors, like city planners, per year come to see it. See the civil servant who guides them in action https://www.rtvutrecht.nl/nieuws/3875045/waarom-de-hele-wereld-komt-fietsen-in-houten (some fragments in English, starting at 20 seconds in the video from RTV Utrecht).
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2025-04-04 16:39:17

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@nprofile…t4l2 This reminds me of my (only) visit to a 'big box' store near Amsterdam this year.
I rented a car to get mousetraps because they were sold out in all local shops. It would be 20 minutes by bike and it was half an hour before closing time.
The parking lot is on the ground floor, the box is build on top of it. Solid concrete structures, it will probably stay there for many decades.
I didn't stay long because the rented car is cheaper if you return it quickly.
@nprofile…g8y8
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2025-04-04 16:39:17

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2025-04-04 07:37:12

New mobility policy in the Netherlands. Local situations are no longer calculated with 'hours lost in traffic' but instead with an index of reachability of 8 key destinations (work, school, hospital, supermarket, etc.) using the 5 modalities: car, bike, bike+public transport, just public transport, and by foot.
You can feed this document to translation software: https://open.overheid.nl/documenten/e74cee13-54bb-4e67-9ebb-817fd42e1f49/file
There, I infected your thinking with a new concept. Hard to undo. Enjoy!
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2025-03-29 13:58:33

Tree roots are pushing up bicycle lanes in Amsterdam (also elsewhere?).
Please think with me. Could it be a solution to lay an iron mat over the tree roots composed of a grid filled with short vertical bamboo stems, which are then periodically horizontally cut?
The stems are pierced with iron wire to prevent them from sinking down were there are no roots.
Bicyclists then always have a perfectly level surface to drive on. Just a short bump, but very gradual. The tree can grow and gets rain.
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2025-03-26 14:45:24

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@nprofile…g8y8 @nprofile…v0y4 He could also take the logos off and replace if for something else.

2025-03-26 14:45:24

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@nprofile…g8y8 @nprofile…v0y4 He could also take the logos off and replace if for something else.

2025-03-24 08:52:45

27% of households in the Netherlands has no car. For 650.000 out of the 8 million this is for financial reasons. The institute that did this research to answer the question ‘why do people have a car?’ concludes “For many households without a car the money is of no or little concern.” At https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/visualisaties/dashboard-bevolking/bevolkingspiramide I see the 20 somethings and elderly who can easily do without a car. @nprofile…g8y8 https://mastodon.nl/@ikbenautovrij/114216550897934282

2025-03-23 14:54:27

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@nprofile…g8y8 What argumentation will you choose? Try to find something unique for the situation with a sense of urgency. I demonstrated that the clutter of bicycles on the pavement made it difficult to pass while many pedestrians go to the supermarket through that spot. In combination with increased bicycle ownership.

2025-03-23 12:13:55

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@nprofile…g8y8 @nprofile…uwr4 if you want to try it in your own neigbourhood in Amsterdam, approach the ‘gebiedsmakelaar' https://www.amsterdam.nl/bestuur-organisatie/gebiedsgericht-werken/gebiedsmakelaars/ who functions as the interface with the bureaucracy.
I quickly got an e-mail from the civil servant dealing with this. Although I do not exclude the possibility that he did a web search on my name and then realised I was extremely well connected to everything about this topic. And probably one handshake away from him.
Imagine ‘Jason Slaughter’ as a query.

2025-03-22 23:05:38

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@nprofile…g8y8 @nprofile…uwr4 Yes, I successfully did it in my street. They check https://maps.amsterdam.nl/parkeerdruk/ and the argumentation.
In my case, a nearby GOW street had little space for bikes but many addresses. So people would park just round the corner in my street.
The 'fietsvlonder’ was first used in de Kinkerstraat and just became available to be used somewhere else.

2025-03-20 09:41:40

In de laatste e-mail van de @nprofile…pdeg wordt de laatste video van @nprofile…g8y8 ook aangeraden: https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-how-is-a-bike-tunnel-this-freakn-great
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2025-03-09 22:12:27

Notice the influence of @nprofile…g8y8 on XKCD as representative of nerds online: https://xkcd.com/2832/ “Urban Planning Opinion Progression"

2025-02-20 16:54:52

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@nprofile…g8y8 also as an op-ed in a prominent Dutch newspaper today! https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/02/19/de-meeste-mensen-staan-veel-positiever-tegenover-een-autoluwe-samenleving-dan-we-denken-a4883698 One can only hope for the same in English and Americans newspapers.

2025-02-17 23:05:46

@nprofile…g8y8 Survey about motonormativity in NL, UK & USA. (…) “showed that the Netherlands’ mean motonormativity score was significantly lower than the other two countries (both p < 0.001) whereas the UK and USA did not differ significantly (p = 0.55).”
"but still, most people in The Netherlands considered their own support for non-car travel to be stronger than infrastructural and, especially, government support.”
and read more fun findings here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378025000172#bb0170 #motonormativity

2025-02-11 11:41:28

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@nprofile…g8y8 For those who can understand Dutch, watch it live https://debatdirect.tweedekamer.nl/2025-02-11/infrastructuur-waterstaat/groen-van-prinstererzaal/verkeersveiligheid-16-30/onderwerp or replay it later. I wonder if there are consequences. The whole debat is about road safety, this will at best get 10 minutes.

2025-02-11 11:39:30

@nprofile…g8y8 This afternoon in parliament, this research https://www.tweedekamer.nl/downloads/document?id=2024D26259 “Crashes involving heavier vehicles; Empirical relationship between vehicle weight, drivetrain and crash frequency and severity”
"In collisions between passenger cars/delivery vehicles and vulnerable road users (i.e., cyclists and pedestrians) (…) as crash opponents, the severity for the crash opponent was on average higher (…)”
Summary on page 6 and 7 is already translated into English.
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2025-02-10 19:28:31

@nprofile…g8y8 75% of the car free Amsterdammers like the 30km/h measure and 52% of car owners do... https://panel.amsterdam.nl/jambo/files/j.a.m.b.o/public-files/Rapportages%20voor%20resultaten%20pagina/Nieuwsbrief%20Stadspanel%20Amsterdam%203.pdf
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2025-02-07 12:17:07

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@nprofile…g8y8 Have never seen them with Arizona plates. They do have the too small size license plate but you can have your Dutch license printed on them https://www.kentekenplatenamsterdam.nl/kentekenplatenoverzicht/amerikaans-model-kentekenplaat/
Allowed as an exception because the car does not have space for the larger Dutch ones. The car model should have “kentekenplaat model 18.2 toegestaan” in the RDW database.
I just tried it with a DODGE RAM 1500 at rdw.nl and indeed. Try yourself with any of these from my collection of perpetrators:
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2025-01-10 08:56:06

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@nprofile…lg30 en dan vraag ik me af, wat is de A12? Blijkt een west-oost snelweg van Den Haag naar de Duitse grens te zijn.

2025-01-09 10:07:22

@nprofile…g8y8 In spite of this problematic ruling coalition in the Netherlands we still have relatively independent institutes producing reports with excellent research questions. This one asks the question who benefits from choices in infrastructure. Does it favour the rich or the poor? An improved bike lane, does it increase the number of schools children can choose from? Do manual labourers benefit from a new metro? https://www.kimnet.nl/publicaties/rapporten/2025/01/09/verdelingseffecten-van-mobiliteitsbeleid Throw the pdf in your favourite translation tool...

2025-01-05 17:51:20

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@nprofile…g8y8 In Amsterdam I would feel entitled to just take over the road and bike in the middle of it. Don't expect much anger from the motorists because they can see there is no alternative. Would not be fined I am sure, for the same reason. Luckily the bike lanes are cleaned and I never felt the need for such a stunt. Probably the city understands what a mess it would be if bicyclists are all deprived of their bike lane and start using the main road.

2024-12-25 08:43:53

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@nprofile…lg30 en ik heb KLM beloond met een stuk in de krant https://www.parool.nl/columns-opinie/opinie-niemand-zegt-dat-alle-medewerkers-in-de-luchtvaart-mensen-mishandelen-maar-de-industrie-moet-zich-wel-normaal-gedragen~bb8805ab/

2024-12-18 08:43:34

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@nprofile…lg30 mwah, niet zo radicaal wat mij betreft. Eerder een no-brainer. Wel stom dat het niet voor iedereen een no-brainer is.

2024-12-11 10:14:11

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@nprofile…g8y8 You should be on CBC with this. I submitted it as a 'news tip' at https://www.cbc.ca/news/email-cbc-contact-phone-tips-news-story-1.6466536 and locals could do the same.

2024-12-06 22:27:00

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@nprofile…lg30 Daar is een #petitie over https://cashvoorairmiles.petities.nl In het kort: zodra Flying Blue-punten in euro’s opgegeven worden zullen ze belast kunnen worden als vermogen, maar ook als inkomen (als je ze via je werk krijgt). Nu zijn ze een vorm van onbelast inkomen voor werknemers die moeten vliegen. Ze 'verdienen' niets als ze naar Parijs of Berlijn treinen. Teken de #petitie!

2024-11-24 21:30:44

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@nprofile…f29e die eigenhandig kartonnen dozen staat te verscheuren bij de papiercontainer in zijn straat als hij ziet dat zijn buurtbewoners er weer een rommeltje van maken met de kartonnen dozen van hun internetaankopen.

2024-04-23 07:16:41

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@npub1jq7…wt4c een koning mag zich niet over politieke kwesties uitspreken.

2024-04-03 10:12:41

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@npub1jq7…wt4c ik vraag me wel af hoe je dan moet reageren op de ambities van Poetin.

2024-03-08 18:21:43

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@npub1jng…y7xd ik schrok mij een hoedje toen ik na een typo in het adres van een Kamerlid een bounce kreeg van Microsoft. Ik kon het eerst niet geloven. Maar toen bedacht ik dat ik geen idee heb hoe ik dit kan problematiseren buiten mijn cirkeltje van gelijkgestemden.

2024-02-14 17:08:15

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@npub1jq7…wt4c past mooi bij https://stopklm.nl

2024-01-23 18:05:26

In de krant schreef ik een opiniestuk waarin ik beargumenteer dat met een faillissement voor KLM veel problemen worden opgelost.
https://www.parool.nl/columns-opinie/opinie-het-is-tijd-om-klm-failliet-te-laten-gaan-alleen-dat-helpt-mens-en-milieu~b8836fe5/
En daar kwamen vooral ad hominem-reacties met veel likes op, zie https://rustema.nl/de-ad-hominem-als-norm/

2023-12-07 13:08:23

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@npub146t…cfpw lees dit interessante onderzoek van de Universiteit Tilburg over het extraparlementair kabinet in Limburg, link staat onder de #petitie https://extraparlementairnu.petities.nl

2023-11-23 11:38:41

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@npub146t…cfpw @npub18hf…anv5 Er is een populaire krant waarin zoiets wel te lezen is door de PVV-achterban bij het stemlokaal te interviewen https://archive.is/luQ4D

2023-09-09 16:57:42

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@npub1jq7…wt4c eh, achter de politiebus is toch ruimte om weer op de grond te gaan zitten? Lijkt althans zo op de video.