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New NJB: Driebergen-Zeist Station
🕑 Added 2023-09-22 10:05:00 +0000 UTCHello everyone!
My latest video is about a train station, but it's a particularly nice train station! The station of Driebergen-Zeist was recently renovated, and I had the pleasure of using this station over the past year.
This is a small station, kinda in the middle of nowhere, but it's surprisingly well designed and it will be the template for future small train stations in the Netherlands.
Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-this-train-station-has-no-business-being-this-good
YouTube: https://youtu.be/HACaRm2KP6Q
I hope you enjoy it! I really like this train station and I'm legitimately sad to leave it!
Comments
Not Just Bikes
I tried to work through Steffen to get Arcadis to help with the video (behind the scenes, access too non-public areas) but they didn't see the value in working with a "youtuber" π so I didn't mention them. Their loss!
Not Just Bikes
I knew which ad it would be before even clicking on it. :) It's quite old now (several decades). The creator of it has said that he's happy if it's used online to discourage car use, but I haven't used it because it's unclear who actually owns the copyright on it.
Chris Florkowski
Hey Jason, can I just say how cool it is to read (on LinkedIn) Arcadis architect, Tom Kramer's appreciation of your video on the Driebergen-Zeist station. He is clearly thrilled to learn that someone noticed the care and attention that was given to the details of that station. An excerpt: "Work of a transit architect is best if it's not drawing too much attention to itself, but feels natural and logical, serving to smoothen the end users experience and promoting the public-transport use. That these things are mentioned here is humbling, but also shows the keen eye of the reporter #not_just_bikes here noticing such easily overlooked details we put into the design. Details needed to reach a level that apparently draws an international urbanist-fan to notice a small station in a small country. It just makes me proud of our work and our Dutch public transport system." (I saw this because I follow Steffen Berr over there.)
Γyvind Wallentinsen
I didn't know about this commercial that was meant to sell cars but is remembered for illustrating how space-consuming cars are, and now that I know of it, you need to use it in a video at your earliest opportunity :p . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_oWmY_mkCA&ab_channel=EliyahuBiton
Shlubbers
Meanwhile my home station is a side platform on a single track wedged between an elevated highway and an enormous waterfront parking lot with an abandoned βbus transferβ station
Bill Scurry
OMG look at this, Tay Zonday is up in the YouTube comments of this one!
