Hugo von der Thüsen
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🚄 Transit enthusiast 📚 Transportation, Infrastructure and Logistics student at TU Delft 👨🎓 he/him More active on: @hugovdthusen .bsky.social
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People praise Dutch bicycle and transit infrastructure and urbanism. But not too many people talk about the car infrastructure which also gets a lot of investment.
Here are some large highways under construction that you might not have heard about on urbanist Twitter
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For my Chicago followers, why does the Pink line not have a station at this stadium?
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I've always been fascinated by multi-level, crossing train stations. Any other good examples from around the world?
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I've always felt like new Dutch neighbourhoods lack bus service and Helmond Brandevoort proves my suspicion perfectly. Sure, it has a sprinter service, but there is not a single bus stop in the marked area. The means no transit connections to the surrounding area at all...
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37 trains in the next 40 minutes, none of them delayed
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This will be the new InterCity map for 2025. Biggest change is the expansion of service running on the HSL between R'dam and A'dam. The international service to Brussels will now run onwards to Lelystad. Brussels now gets a train every 30 minutes to NL
Almost all run every 30min
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Dutch railway worst nightmare, systems malfunction in Utrecht
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I never realised that the Rotterdam and The Hague tram networks were so close, only 15 minutes by bike. I'll be making use of that tonight to get to Rotterdam as the trains aren't running
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Track doubling (2 -> 4) is almost complete at Delft. The new tunnel is in use and the southbound trains now stop at the new track 3, northbound at track 2. Tracks 1 & 4 are not yet in use, will be soon though. December will bring the new timetable with 28 trains per hour
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I love finding random small towns/villages in Switzerland that have railway infrastructure you would normally find in large cities.
Two underground stations this case
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...Almost 12k people live in this area with 0 bus service. They do have amazing bicycle infrastructure of course, it's a new built Dutch town. But that doesn't cover the less mobile people.
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It ended up costing €4.7 billion. The rail line is underused because the Germans refuse to hook it up correctly on their part as it would have negative economic impacts on their own ports in Hamburg and Bremen. Gotthardtunnel is part of this project.
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The wires are up! We're getting close to the extension opening now after only 20 years
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Just look at that map, the Rhein-Ruhr area is awesome. And this doesn't even include the trams and Stadt/U-bahn
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I'm guessing this guy wouldn't bat an eye at a highway expansion project demolishing hundreds of homes. Not to even mention that most of the rail infrastructure existed years before homes were being built there (e.g. Sloterdijk and Secaucus). And Berlin was bombed...
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Canary Wharf and La Défense are two such amazingly connected and designed 21st century business districts. Kind of acting like a 2nd hub for their respective cities.
What are some other great examples around the world?
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🧵(1/18) The extension to tram line 19 in Delft is finally being constructed. It will extend the light-rail/tram line of Den Haag's tram network from the Delft Train station to the campus of Delft University of Technology. But not all is good, here is why
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In awe of this Norwegian tunnel being constructed that not only has 3 underground roundabouts but has to do a full 4.9km loop to reach the surface at this tiny island of 535 people (Kvitsøy)
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I would have at least expected a bus route like this that can take passengers directly from Brandevoort to the city centre whilst connecting it to multiple other neighbourhoods.
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When the Uithoornlijn in Amsterdam (july) and the line 19 extension in Delft (mid-2025) are finished there will be no new rail projects under construction in The Netherlands. I believe that is the first time since the construction of the metro's in the 1960s
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Currently in Freiburg, this is what a downtown Street is supposed to look like. No cars, fully pedestrianised, trams in the middle and lovely water streams either side. Children playing, people singing and shops everywhere.
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Let's start around Rotterdam where 2 completely new highways are being built. First the A24, a very short highway consisting mainly of a new tunnel under the Nieuwe Maas. It would connect the busiest port in the Western world to the North of the country
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The ministry says they are building the new highway to alleviate traffic in the busy Beneluxtunnel which sees frequent back-ups. This despite the Betuweroute, a freight-only rail line to the Hinterland which was the most expensive infrastructure project ever in NL.
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The Netherlands is a great country for infrastructure, if you're a cyclist, public transit taker but also if you're a motorist. In 2021 the government spent about 42% of the infra budget on Transit, 47% on roads and the rest on Water. Still much better than the US
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With Brandevoort being a recreation of an old Dutch city centre it's almost like they are recreating
@ChittiMarco
's observation on Dutch cities not running bus service through its centres
It's interesting how some small Dutch cities have opted for a model of city center accessibility where they essentially kicked both cars AND transit outside of the core. That's not the approach used elsewhere.
Left: Delft (NL) - 100k
Right: Besançon (FR) - 120k
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Had my first ever ride on the Rotterdam "Parkshuttle" autonomous bus today. It runs on a short 5-stop line between Kralingse Zoom metro station and the business park of Rivium
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I would like to think that if the High Speed Line from Amsterdam to Rotterdam actually worked like it is supposed to (not capped at 80km/h...) then this would be an unnecessary project. Sadly this will only induce demand even when the HSL is fixed
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Next up is the new A16. A bypass North of Rotterdam built to alleviate congestion on the very busy and old A20. It will branch off of the A13 and rejoin the A20 at Terbregseplein. Quite some demolishing had to be done for this highway, with local outrage as a result.
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This tunnel was bored and therefore it wont leave such a scar as the A16 will. Although I think the money would have been better spent on the light-rail line between Gouda, Alphen a/d Rijn, Leiden and Noordwijk/Katwijk. It was axed in 2012.
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This is a really cool picture of the Maeslantkering yesterday. First time it was closed due to real storm conditions since its opening in 1997
Via mijn broer krijg ik zonet een geweldig foto van de gesloten
#maaslandkering
Dit soort geweldige kunstwerken maakte we in het verleden om
#Nederland
te beschermen.
#hoogwater
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@RM_Transit
NL has been getting a lot of twitter hate lately. Probably due to NJB videos that don't fall well with the twitter community. Sure not everything is great but man everyone seems to be hating on the country
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It crosses north of the airport turning south into the Lage Bergse Bos park. When finished this will be a tunnel, but due to the cut-and-cover method a large scar is left through the park.
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@ChittiMarco
There is an hourly bus connecting Helmond and Eindhoven which inexplicably has very closely spaced stops in the east and 0 stops in the west
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Today I'm at new Uithoorn light rail extension which opened in July 2024 and extended line 25 of the Amsterdam tram by 4km from Westwijk to Uithoorn Centrum to serve the town of Uithoorn along its old railway corridor
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@macsquirelera
I will forever stand by the fact that google hates transit users. The Maps app is the
#1
reason I want to switch to Apple
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Closer to home is Rijswijk Sion, 5000 people and growing. It is located perfectly between Rijswijk and Delft and has ONE bus stop that is served by a half hourly bus route
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Part of the highway under construction is now a bicycle detour which
@stevevance
took last year.
It won't be when it opens obviously.
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I thought I was taking a nice bike route through the countryside (literally 500 meters from my friend’s house) and then I had to detour on a special route over a motorway under construction
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@JayBeeGooner
But what if you are coming from the Cermak branch of the Pink line? 15 minute walk from Ashland is quite long for a major stadium. It would be 4 mins if the station was constructed, add some new development around the stadium and you have a bustling centre
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But it can be even better. I have only covered 4 projects but there are plenty of highway-widening projects currently happening that I haven't even mentioned.
Ride safely!
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Groningen is next. The highway isn't new, it just replaces some at-grade intersections and upgrades the roads to highways with fully grade separated intersections. I don't know much about this project.
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The last project I will show is the Rijnlandroute, a new highway connecting the A44 and A4 south of Leiden. It will be almost completely tunneled should have been opened years ago. An equipment fire and supply chain problems have delayed it.
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@stevevance
They are great roads, honestly the best in the world bar none in my opinion. No potholes, great signage, ZOAB asphalt everywhere so great visibility in rain.
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These are the new fully electric buses for The Hague and I like the way they look. 3 doors on both the short and long buses, sadly boarding is still only allowed at the front door
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These cars DO NOT belong in our cities. Sadly another cyclist murdered by someone who feels like they need such a stupidly oversized vehicle
De fietser die vanmorgen gewond raakte bij een ongeval op de Vondelstraat Den Haag is helaas aan zijn verwondingen overleden.
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@RM_Transit
Not every station has to be an art piece. Sure, it needs to look inviting and nice and some public art is welcome. But building good and affordable transit is more important than realising some Architects dream
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I was in the largest bicycle traffic jam I've ever been in. Took me 3 minutes to clear 200m
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@the_transit_guy
The Dutch red. It doesn't make the streets look so garish as the neon green does but is does clearly distinguish it from the black asphalt for cars. Fits in well when you use bricks for slow streets
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Every year in June I'm surprised at how long it stays light. It's 23h00 right now
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@avocadobonsai
Yeah I'm watching this video on the White Sox wanting to build a new station near downtown. But this United Center looks in a prime location to just have the parking lots around it converted to high rises and other developments
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Taking the strangest NS train today, the hourly shuttle from Utrecht CS to the railway museum! It reverse itself into the old railway station after passing the former railway diamond at Blauwkapel. It runs mainly through old residential areas of Utrecht
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@stevevance
Next tram extension: Binckhorstlijn in Den Haag and a new tram over the Maas in Rotterdam East
Next metro extension: Schiphol - Zuid or connection Isolatorweg - Centraal Station
Next main line: Lelylijn from Lelystad to Groningen (long ways away)
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The dumbest thing ever in a tram, exit only doors *with* one way gates. WHY AMSTERDAM!?
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@RM_Transit
The fact I can't find a meaningful difference between these two stations says a lot too
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@ChittiMarco
I love this place. It's such a quirky satellite town. Used to even have a 1.9km light rail line that connected it to the other station in Houten.
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Also, I love that they brought back the large departure boards at Utrecht Centraal
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When there is only 1 line the Google Maps transit overlay is quite good, but as soon as you have multiple lines it just throws a fit
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How does NS run a rail replacement bus on one of the busiest routes in the country? Run one every 3 minutes. Still not the same capacity, but outside of the peak it should suffice
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Today's plan is to cross of these lines that I haven't ridden yet. It should get me above the 90% mark of the entire Dutch network.
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New Stadler train dropped. Just imagine a bunch of these 1-car Hydrogen trains running on regional lines throughout the US. Reminds me of the Budd diesel cars.
It genuinely wouldn't surprise me if we saw a few places in the US where these trains run in the next 10 years or so
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This is going to be the hourly stopping pattern from December onwards. The planned 3rd & 4th IC's to Eindhoven won't be in the new timetable yet.
(I'm 90% sure about this, but correct me if I'm wrong)
Track doubling (2 -> 4) is almost complete at Delft. The new tunnel is in use and the southbound trains now stop at the new track 3, northbound at track 2. Tracks 1 & 4 are not yet in use, will be soon though. December will bring the new timetable with 28 trains per hour
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Travelling to the Fehmarnbelt tunnel construction site today. Sadly strictly forbidden to post images online so you'll have to do with these stock images and my words
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3 lane road turned into a 1-way street with decent bicycle infrastructure along the beachfront
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Den Haag is getting a new tram line. It will run through the extensively redeveloped Binckhorst area connecting it from with city centre and onwards to Delft, Voorburg and possibly Zoetermeer.
An illustrated🧵(1/17)
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Montenegro 🇲🇪, another Balkan country I can cross off
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Incredibly interesting study on city mobility around the globe. Super interesting to see that Utrecht almost has the highest share of active mobility in the World. Strong correlation between income and car usage.
The ABC of mobility
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Amsterdam Zuid comes to mind which, for the size of Amsterdam, is quite decent. But it's nothing compared to Canary wharf and La Défense
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Thursday I will be crossing off some of the last rail lines in NL I have not yet been on. Working on an itinerary now, should easily be possible in a day starting in Delft
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The trip begins! First train will be this ICNG to Rotterdam.
Order of business
#1
: Get out of The Netherlands
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In The Netherlands 12,9 million people, or 74% of all inhabitants, live within 5 km of a railway station. All stations get a train at least every 30 minutes in each direction except for one, Eemshaven, which is all the way up north in a port
Het is bijna 2 uur 's-nachts, wat doe je dan? Berekenen hoe veel mensen binnen 5 kilometer van een treinstation wonen in Nederland.
Het antwoord: 12,9 miljoen. .
Weltrusten!
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I love how NS knew that the luggage racks in double decker (EU gauge) trains just don't make sense and removed them alltogether
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@AirlineFlyer
Most of these transit "innovations" never happen in The Netherlands, but for some reason this one did, and it's not the greatest succes. But it's one of the few quirky things we have here so I'll take it
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@JohnPompliano
Why do train companies have to make a profit? The roads don't, the postal service doesn't our military doesn't. Transit is a service, not a for-profit business
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(5/18) This does mean that the is no transit service on weekends at all! That is appalling for a campus where students study and live, also on weekends. But this will be fixed when line 19 gets extended right? Nope, that will only run on weekdays from 07:00 - 19:00
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I finally went and visited the new underwater bicycle parking at Amsterdam Centraal. It's amazing
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(6/18) Students might be the most mobile people in the country. They all have free transportation passes and are always going places. Maybe they want to visit a bar in the centre or go shopping in Den Haag, but this horrible timetable is focussed solely on study/work commute
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This is such an insanely logical plan I can't believe it hasn't been done yet. Connecting one of the areas largest airports directly into the two largest cities in the region, no-brainer
The replacement of AirTrain Newark offers a chance to extend PATH directly to
@EWRairport
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@PANYNJ
's current cable car plans risk making this impossible, maintaining the current cumbersome transfer for years to come.
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This IC between DH and R'dam is supplemented with a Sprinter every 10 minutes so that this line now sees a train every 5 minutes. This is amazing for me living in Delft as I will never have to wait longer than 5 minutes for a ride out of the city
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@DrKathyChandler
@EurostarUK
@BBCNews
A lot of domestic rail still runs on diesel whereas Eurostar is fully electric
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In Uithoorn where later this year a tram extension to Amsterdam wil open. Already has great BRT services
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We have a date! The new platforms at Delft station will open on July 27th. This means 4 platforms total and an increase of services from 22 to 28 trains per hour
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@RM_Transit
Yeah I don't agree with NJB's opinion there, absolutely. And NL sure as hell is not perfect, a lot of other countries have better public transit etc. But I haven't seen a good word spoken about it in the last month or so. Maybe tensions are just up or something
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@slucy
They're finally connecting the 2 new tracks through Delft which takes them 2 weeks to do. In a week we should have double the capacity!
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Nice has created a lot of beautiful bicycle streets in the last few years. At first glance it looks like a solid network
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Even though I rode all of Copenhagen's metro last month I can no longer say that as they have opened five new stations today
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(18/18) As it stands, the line will be completed in Q1 of 2024 and we will finally see those tracks get used. Of course, I will update you all here when the time has come. For now, we will have to wait and see if there will be another delay on its way
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90% now! Rode the little line to Utrecht Maliebaan today. My Grandpa also told me that I had ridden on the steam train from Apeldoorn to Dieren in 2015 so I added that one as well. Only a few left to go
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(14/18) Instead, the line will now take a left turn and end at a parking garage which has no use as a park & ride as it is private parking for campus staff
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Some important points (in my eyes) from the now published Dutch coalition papers:
- 100,000 homes built per year and €2.5b to build the necessary infrastructure
- 9.5 billion for 2 new Nuclear plants
- 22% reduction in gov employees
- New voting system with constituencies (wtf)
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