Posted on 05/14/2010 10:38:27 AM PDT by Willie Green
A cool video spotted by Buzzfeed shows a city in the Netherlands that has made bikes a transit priority. Find the full video here (on YouTube).
What do they do when it rains or snows?
They take high speed train. One of the reasons that the Euro is tanking and needs a $1 Trillion bailout.
Looks great, sounds nice.
Especially as in the video on a lovely spring day.
Please note, Holland and Denmark are both as flat as a pancake.
You do not want everybody having to do this in Pittsburgh or any other vertically challenging area.
Gee, I wonder what it looks like:
1) In the rain,
2) During the winter,
3) In the dark,
3.1) During Katrina,
4) With kids on their way to soccer practice, or
5) After your colonoscopy?
If you are American, there could be a bicycle in your future. Chinese use motorbikes and cars now.
Unlike their American counter parts, it looks like these people actually obey traffic rules.
What do they do when it rains or snows?
They make a different video: Cycle Rush Hour in the Snow - Utrecht, Netherlands
Gee. Looks like fun! /s
It's "pending approval"
No charge.
Yikes.
Notice no fatsos? In the summer it’s fun to watch the Dutch women ride by. The cycling gives them great legs!
Small stuff.
Now, in China, that’s a bicycle rush hour. Or used to be.
Hehe, they’re riding skinny tired cruisers and hipster fixies. Needless to say, this country is known for it’s “dikes”.
Lazy ba_tards, why don’t they walk. Been there. It is flat as a cow-pie and people live near work. I went to a meeting in Utrecht courtesy of Dutch Health to advise them on how to assess some of their severely contaminated sites. I was instructed to keep track of all expenses and retain receipts. It took almost 10 months to get reimbursed after having to send receipt copies no less than 3 times—never have I witnessed such incompetence. They typify the lazy liberal/progressive.
Our wishing it were so won’t make it happen for us. EVERYTHING has to change to make this possible in America. You can’t commute by bike 25-50 miles each way. That means we would all have to live and work MUCH closer together. Even commuter trains are ineffective for us because we live and work SO spread out in most of the country. If youu have to drive to the train station, then drive from the train station to your job, the system is pretty ineffective compared to just driving directly to your job.
Lazy ba_tards, why don’t they walk. Been there. It is flat as a cow-pie and people live near work.
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Ummm, biking is exercise, and pretty good exercise at that. Hmmm, flat and close, pretty perfect for riding bike to work.
I can’t judge their competence, as you have, but calling them lazy for riding their bikes makes no sense.
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