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Business Parks Suck (but they don't have to)

Not Just Bikes · explainer · Watch on YouTube

Transit, cities & urban planning

What it is

Not Just Bikes contrasts typical car-dependent North American business parks with one near the airport in the Netherlands that works for driving, cycling and transit. It looks at how the design makes commuting easier.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN cites it as an example of a business park that is drivable yet bike and transit friendly, in urbanism and transport threads.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2022, last 2025

What HN commenters said

  1. “makes a similar case for generic concrete business parks in the USA and Canada compared to one in the Netherlands.”

    Contrasts hostile North American business parks with a Dutch one.

    jodrellblank, 2022-04 · Recommendation · in “Le Corbusier's project Plan Voisin – a radical urban design for Paris from 1925”

  2. “This video might be relevant to your described scenario”

    Shows a Dutch business park that is drivable yet bike and transit friendly.

    dangus, 2022-07 · Recommendation · in “Cruise’s Robot Car Outages Are Jamming Up San Francisco”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: business parks, netherlands, cycling infrastructure, transit, car-dependence

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