Well aprarently they’ve done exactly that and it was too effective.
While I support them in this endavour, 100000s of students in a single night simply is too much to handle for a single city.
Rather than outright banning people from cycling thouoh, they should instead encorage them to spread out to multiple cities/locations. I imagine those places would love to each receive a manageable amount of visitors each.
That’s what i meant by developing it instead of just encouraging it. Building cycling infrastructure for them, parking space, that sort of thing. Solve the issue of overcrowding overtime instead of simply and arbitrary banning forever, sweeping the issue under the carpet and call it a day, something authority loved to do.
The issue at hand isn’t cycling infrastructure. The issue at hand is that, due to typical trend hype cycles, it became super hip to go to that place, causing a shitton of people to follow that trend and go to that one place. That has extremely negative consequences no matter the mode of transport, though cycling is of course much less damaging than i.e. cars would be. The real problem is the amount of people though, not how they get there. If you’ve ever been to a major train station in the Netherlands, you’ll know that bicycle parking hits a scaling limit too at some point.
The local(?) government is therefore fully right in attempting to limit the amount of people following the trend IMHO. What I disagree about are the means because it’s typical authoritarian overreach BS. The banning of bycicles is only a proxy for banning going to that place at night because going there at night by bicycle is the hype thing to do, not because they generally want to suppress bicycle use specifically.
It’s also never said anywhere that this is a permanent thing. There’s no reason for them to ban it permanently. This is just to curb the trend and when the big trend hype wave is inevitably over, the government won’t care anymore either and will lift the countermeasures.
Well aprarently they’ve done exactly that and it was too effective.
While I support them in this endavour, 100000s of students in a single night simply is too much to handle for a single city.
Rather than outright banning people from cycling thouoh, they should instead encorage them to spread out to multiple cities/locations. I imagine those places would love to each receive a manageable amount of visitors each.
That’s what i meant by developing it instead of just encouraging it. Building cycling infrastructure for them, parking space, that sort of thing. Solve the issue of overcrowding overtime instead of simply and arbitrary banning forever, sweeping the issue under the carpet and call it a day, something authority loved to do.
The issue at hand isn’t cycling infrastructure. The issue at hand is that, due to typical trend hype cycles, it became super hip to go to that place, causing a shitton of people to follow that trend and go to that one place. That has extremely negative consequences no matter the mode of transport, though cycling is of course much less damaging than i.e. cars would be. The real problem is the amount of people though, not how they get there. If you’ve ever been to a major train station in the Netherlands, you’ll know that bicycle parking hits a scaling limit too at some point.
The local(?) government is therefore fully right in attempting to limit the amount of people following the trend IMHO. What I disagree about are the means because it’s typical authoritarian overreach BS. The banning of bycicles is only a proxy for banning going to that place at night because going there at night by bicycle is the hype thing to do, not because they generally want to suppress bicycle use specifically.
It’s also never said anywhere that this is a permanent thing. There’s no reason for them to ban it permanently. This is just to curb the trend and when the big trend hype wave is inevitably over, the government won’t care anymore either and will lift the countermeasures.