Ghent kicked out cars to make room for cyclists! (and hosted Velo-City 2024)

[klanko]

The staged anti-cycling protest seems like a weird thing to add to the event. I also thought it was real until you said otherwise

[SturmZebra]

I'm very proud that I live in a city which is copying the scheme of inner city zones

[JonasSalen]

If you're looking into Belgian cities, I would love to welcome you to the smaller city of Mechelen. We had the bicycle city of 2022 award. Our whole city is a fietsstraat, we have schoolstraten at almost every school and recently we redid our ringroad to have it only one-way for cars to make room for more and bigger cycling lanes. The city is also redoing a lot of streets to make space for cyclists.

[charlienyc]

I hit 'like' so many times while watching this, I realized I was toggling it on & off. Great video. You have another subscriber.

[shivtim]

I recently went to Ghent and Bruges and loved Ghent so much more because of this. In Bruges we had to constantly watch out for cars and trucks that were speeding through the historic center and even through the main square. In Ghent it was so pleasant to walk around and take the tram.

[kaischmidt]

I LOVE Ghent. The city center without cars is just amazing.

[CreRay]

Great efforts! This makes me spontaneously want to move to Gent! Beautiful city with very nice people. Maybe one day...

[hananas]

I live in Ghent, it's a great city :)
I'm surprised it almost always flies under the radar for cycling friendly cities, but maybe that's because it's not that big relatively speaking.

[alonblue]

I love Gent! visited and was very impressed

[pedalandtringtring]

Thanks for the update from Ghent, hopefully I will get a chance to attend the Gdansk conference

[jakubkebukaj]

I live in Gdańsk and i am looking forward to this event next year!
City is relatively cycling friendly, but has A LOT to do to improve. Its cycling modal share is just 5%. Because of that i was surprised that this event will be held in my city.

It is a bit overrun with cars as they held 42% of modal share which is still rising. Fortunately they are making some changes to make city more pedestrian and bike friendly building more level crossings. They have plans for buiding a network of bike highways. So I hope that this conference and event will help improve cycling experience in the future.

[paolagrando]

I like that 1 floor of an underground car park was flooded with thousands of bikes of the participants. (Found in the blog in the description 📦)

[bluettr]

And our town is spending a million on a car park. You know, for more cars.

[The-Dutch-Way]

Since the start of Velo-city in 1980, five conferences have been held outside Europe: Montreal, Canada (1992), Vancouver, Canada (2012), Adelaide, Australia (2014), Taipei City, Taiwan (2016) and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2018).
Are there plans to hold the conference in the USA in the future?

[georgh.]

never seen so much Tern GSDs on one place, before. Like it 😊

[paolagrando]

2:45 I've just learned that Ghent copied the temporary closing of the streets around schools from Bolzano (IT) ... Why the rest of Italy hasn't done the same!?? 😣

[tarquinmidwinter]

Il y a longtemps que j'allais tant de Bruges à Gand 🎵🎶

[respectedgentleman]

I've always called it 'Gent' not 'Hent' but I'll bow to your knowledge on Dutch / Flemish pronounciation! Anyway, good to see Belgium taking it more seriously. Always been the poor relation of NL for cycling, but slowly we are all learning the value of safe cycling in cities.

[Siranoxz]

I wonder how well developed Polish cycling infrastructure is..

[TheYoutubeUser]

its crazy home much more biking infrastructre you can build for the same money.