Humanius

On the website of the municipality there is a list of all streets that will have their maximum speed lowered:
https://www.utrecht.nl/wonen-en-leven/verkeer/verkeersveiligheid/wat-doet-de-gemeente/straten-30-kilometer-per-uur-maken

Sadly they don’t show a map. That would be a nice visualization.

Having cycled in that pedestrian zone several months ago when I was in Brussels, I can certainly see why they would want to ban cycling in the area.

I got the impression that it was too busy with pedestrians to meaningfully cycle there. It would be better if cyclists dismount and walk if they need to be there, and otherwise cycle around the area.

The alternative suggestion in the article to clearly mark a bike lane with paint, would only work if the pedestrians also honour the paint by not walking in the bikelane. Somehow I doubt that that will happen.

Sometimes cycling and walking are incompatible, especially if there is large masses of people. If you can’t have both keeping the space as pedestrian-only seems like the preferable outcome.

While this is all quite concerning, it’s worth noting that no policy has passed yet and they are still in the negotiation phase.

EU Transport Ministers have stripped back the European Commission’s proposals to modernise periodic technical inspections (PTI) for vehicles and, at the same time, paved the way for the unchecked proliferation of longer and heavier vehicles (LHVs) across the continent.

However the final shape of the proposals is subject to negotiations with the European Parliament and Commission.

My server has also not been liking the heat over the past month

Though in my case it’s because drive 3 is sitting in a slot that is possibly not getting enough airflow. It’s consistently running a bit hotter than the other drives in the system.

I really should get around to moving it to a different slot.