Netherlands incredible bike infrastructure. This is how you promote active and healthy lifestyle

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

if you brought Euro streets here people would be running down cyclists. And a lot of lazy fat ass people don't care to have an active lifestyle. Even in Canada drivers hate cyclists and feel they own the road or have more right to em. Will block bike lanes any time they fell like it or try to run you off the road when there isn't one. Some years I don't even touch my bike because people are always getting killed. I have many close encounters. I resorted to just biking off main roads and hitting dedicate bike trails.

 

[TELL ME YA CHEESIN FAM?]

Wanted to buy a new Trek bicycle since my last one was during the Pandemic. Looked at the prices on road bikes and was disgusted. I could buy a small car for that amount.

Prices have gone down
The pandemic been over and millions of bikes are just collecting dust

 

[Heafcliffe]

As the owner of a road bike and e-bike, that's dope.

 

[Rick Fox at UNC]

Would love to see cities like NYC, Santa Monica, Chicago, and the Bay adopt this.

Honestly thinking of moving to Zurich or the Netherlands for a year or two just for the health/culture benefits.

Could definitely see allowing my kids to attend primary school in Europe before moving them back to the states (well, 1 of like 3 states I would consider).

 

[staticshock]

Americans don’t live where they work. I wish yall stop with this bike bullshyt

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

I would be a menace with an ebike over there

 

[Paper Boi]

definitely better than these fakkits being in my lane

 

[Aprogressivone]

I've been to the Netherlands twice and it's just different. America doesn't have the culture yet to actually get buy in. A lot of people on a popular Instagram page for DC called WashingtonianProbs get super mad when posts about additional bike lanes occur. There is literally a post today about a bike accident and some people are in the comments mad. You have people talking about building more parking and stuff when common sense says that isn't super realistic. When people mention to use the metro they get all mad saying they like their personal space or talk about safety. America is just different. All cities can't do it but DC is mad small and inside the city limits biking can work well. From a safety perspective, curb/barrier divided bike lanes are the best and that is where a lot of pushback happens. We mostly have just painted lanes currently.

 

[feelosofer]

This is quite the marvel of city planning and civic engineering. I would love that for the US but the American Auto industry is in bed with the gov't.

 

[AQz]

It’s about the design of the city. If you’re not WTH gang, is this practical? I see some local people that work at my gym or grocery store bike there, but most big businesses aren’t in residential areas.

 

[boogers]

We need to coordinate a coli meet up over there and show them how we do it in America jack

fukk that, i'll just send in the wu-tang clan

 

[pickles]

I just want to go to Amsterdam and get high.

 

[I Really Mean It]

how am i going to drive my lambo through those tiny lanes???

 

[Braman]

Beautiful city. When I tell people it was one of my favorite places to travel everyone side eyes and thinks red light district

 

[Jalether]

how am i going to drive my lambo through those tiny lanes???

They are bike lanes only