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Interview:
While busy with painting the street next to the tram tracks a man stops his bike.
Man: What are you guys doing?
Mind the Track: Helping other people not to fall because of tram tracks with their bikes.
Man: Oh, I thought you were vandalizing.
Mind the Track: The opposite. We might have just saved your life haha.
Man: Is that permanent paint?
Mind the Track: No, it washes off. But it’s about the whole idea of warning people. It is a school project we’re working on called Mind the Track. It’s about the dangers of the public space. We’re working on a publication that tells stories of people who’ve had these experiences.
Man: Ah I see. I don’t recall ever falling over the tram tracks myself. But when it’s dark I can see how people can’t see them clearly and hurt them- selves.
Mind the Track: And maybe hurt other people too. We’re exploring the boundaries bet- ween the private and public space. For example, when you are riding the bike or taking a tram to your work. That’s a private thing right?
Man: Yes.
Mind the Track: But you’re using the public space to do that, which technically makes you a danger for other people.
Man: I’m very careful haha.
Mind the Track: Yes, and that’s great. But accidents happen, no matter how careful you are.
Man: That’s right, I’ll make sure I won’t fall over these tram tracks then.
Mind the Track: You won’t have to with these signs on the ground.
Man: Haha, good luck with your project!
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A quick manual on how to help people after their bike accidents. It works with Ikea so it will work with you!
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Mind the Track is a project, which researches and deals with the subject at “Public and Private” level.
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One summer day, me and my guest from Laos who is originally from the Netherlands, was heading to the supermarket to do shopping.
We popped on our bicycles and headed out, on the way I was talking to him, warning him off of the street which we were going to go through and the danger of the tracks stationed at the street.
Not long before we have reached that street. On both sides of the streets cars were parked, tram tracks where laid right in the middle of the street in both directions.
As we cycled on, not so long before I had to shift to my left as a parked car was about to make its’ exit. That was the moment when my wheel got ditched in the track. Me ending up flying off of the bicycle, which caused all the traffic to stop, leaving my wheel crooked and me with some bruises.
- Semith, 29
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Interview with Diana:
Mind the Track: Do you live in Rotterdam?
Diana: Yes, I do. I live on the west side of Rotterdam.
Mind the Track: I assume you’re a student aren’t you?
Diana: Yes, that’s right, I study enginee- ring at the Hogeschool Rotterdam.
Mind the Track: Ah ok, so how do you get to your school?
Diana: By bike, everyday.
Mind the Track: We’re asking because we are busy with an awareness project that want to warn people for the hazards of the public space. Have you ever fallen off your bike because of tram tracks or other public ha- zards?
Diana: Well, tram tracks of course. They can be annoying sometimes, especially when you’re not paying attention. It’s pretty stupid.
Mind the Track: How did that happen?
Diana: When I came back from having a few drinks at some bar, I was cycling back to my home. It was dark of course so you don’t see them coming and my bike got caught in the tracks. That’s when I fell down.
Mind the Track: Were you injured?
Diana: I had some scratches but I think I was just lucky. I’ve had conversations with my friends and one broke her arm once.
Mind the Track: Do you think if there were signs on the ground right next to the tracks that it would have prevented your incident?
Diana: Haha, I guess. It probably would have to be honest. They would have to be very bright though as it was pretty dark. But the tram tracks are a pretty small part of the public hazards in big cities I think.
Mind the Track: The terrorism threats you mean?
Diana: Among other things. Cities like Rotterdam aren’t as safe as most people think it is. You’re crammed into a public space with a lot of other people. The Netherlands have a pretty well organized infrastructure but still.
Mind the Track: You study engineering. What would be a right way to raise awareness or help people with the dangers in the city?
Diana: To be honest, I don’t really know.
This is just the way it is. There is a lot of attention for terrorism threats right now. People are still afraid. I think the colored signs next to the tram tracks would be a small but effective step into the right direction.
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“It was in the middle of the night, I was on my way back home when a guy started chasing me. He was yelling at me and I told him to leave me alone but he insisted. Instead he cycled even faster. It was super dark because it was around five in the morning. I couldn‘t really see much and also tried to speed up a bit to get rid of him thats how my accident happened. I couldn‘t see the tram tracks and got stuck in there with my front wheel. Feel on my head, ellbow and knee pretty badly. But don‘t worry people, I am alright now again ;). But actually yes, it would have not happened if the train tracks were somehow marked so that you can see them any time.”
-Lisa, 28.
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Cultivating our own garden among the borders of “Public and Private”, Steel and Wheel. A Pattern Language, book that descri- bes the architectural order, in order to create our living spaces shows us how we get on with living in a space. When the subject we are to have a dialogue about is “living”, sooner or later we will have it about “Public and Private”, inevitably.
In societies like ours, in our time, the questions about “Public and Private” comes forth more than we would all like to have, assumably. As we all face difficulties having a clear idea what they are and where their borders lie. Each asked question bears the next question.
Architecture, which creates spaces for public and private use, on a most public space: the Earth; holds the most important questions. If we are to look into our needs, one of them is transportation. As an economical solution that is being “Public Transportation”, to name it. To get from the place that we are to our desired destination, with the speed needed for the time we live in. As a result in our cities we end up with busses, tubes, trains, in a city like ours, Rotterdam, we make a prominent use of trams and bicycles. Not only we make a use of them, we also create our living around them in the city. The tracks of the trams, which adorns the city by drawing steel lines around. Creating borders of their own, laying tall and mighty.
Then we have the cycling paths and designated and undesignated parking lots for bicycles. Cycling paths lay among the main roads and pedestrian paths most of the times and create borders between the vehicles and humans. However due to the architectural order of the cities, cycling paths and tram tracks at points cross each others paths, at times they are right one another, almost interwoven.
Order of living affected by the architectural patterns/rules and growth of the cities, even though, it is thought out and executed in order to create beautiful, liveable spaces come with the cost of danger and questions regarding “Public and Private”. If we are to ask the questions “Is riding on a tram done publicly or privately, is cycling done publicly or privately?“, perhaps we can conclude from our experiences that public act intertwines with private act.
But what if the two most common used ways of transportation cross each others paths and affect one another simultaneously. Are we yet aware of the facts and results of it as it is in “Public and Private”? Does not Public affects Private and vice versa? If we are to answer the question from the stand point of cycling (Private) and trams (Public), we can say that it is the case. We know that from our experiences and the numbers those prove.
However, that being the case, accidents keep taking place. Even if it did not happen to us personally, we have heard one or two stories of others getting their wheel ditched in the tram track. In a city like ours, even though we know those accidents take place, how come we are not that conscious of it? A near miss or fall down has much more affects than on a personal/private level. A fall due to getting ditched in a tram line can delay trams, therefore public and to the extend of every private being that is on that road, in the tram trying to make their way to work or home! It comes to this: “ What is the reason no one questions or tend to do anything about problems regarding “Public and Private” and emphasises the awareness about.
From theoretical point of view, that is how things are. But as a private individual who is part of public, we are more focused on the basic events those take place. Our fall belongs to us, and awareness towards the subject is minimal.
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Nationally the total of bicycle accident deaths hover around 200. In Amsterdam about 6 people die in bike-related accidents yearly. 16 million Dutch own 18 million bikes. About half the population of the NL rides a bike once a day. The average distance traveled by bike per person per day was 2.5km in 2006.
The bicycle is used for almost a quarter of all journeys, and 35% of journeys below 7.5km. Overall traffic safety in NL is the best in Europe with 45 deaths per million inhabitants per year. About 60 percent of fatal bicycle accidents occur at crossroads. The most fatal accidents involving cyclists happen in the afternoon between 3 and 4 pm on weekdays.
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