Can you access beg buttons from your bakfiets?
Channel: bike bike nudge nudge
Date: 2022-09-15

Car-centric cities prioritize the movement of cars and require people on foot or bike to beg in order to cross the street. These beg buttons are often just mounted on the light pole, with little consideration on how the surrounding roads, sidewalks, and curb cuts affect a person's ability to access these beg buttons. Riding something with low manoeuvrability, like a bakfiets or a mobility device, can make beg buttons even less accessible.

In this video, I show examples of beg buttons in my city with good and poor accessibility. I suggest that improving the access to beg buttons is a small thing cities can do to make mobility outside a car just a little more pleasant, especially for people on bakfiets or mobility devices.

For a more thorough look at pedestrian crossings, please see this Not Just Bike video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ByEBjf9ktY

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