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

[jwinfield]

The crazy thing about the Netherlands is it all happened fairly quickly. They were all in on the car wave up through much of the 80s. Then they started building a network of bike lanes instead of a bike lane here and there. If we want something similar in the US, we have to push for bike networks and quick builds that get tested, adjusted and solidified once the street is rebuilt down the line. You need a network of bike lanes that can comfortably take people from one part of the city to the other without disruption.

We'll never have train stations like this, or bike parking lots of this magnitude, but one can dream.

Was out in Amsterdam a couple years ago and did a canal tour. IIRC, a kid was hit and killed by a car riding her bike and they said fukk that and shifted to a mostly biking city.

 

[Jalether]

I just want to go to Amsterdam and get high.

Their laws around weed is weird. for e.g it's illegal to smoke weed out in public but you are allowed to smoke them in designated cafe's or at the comfort of your own home The explanation for this is it's more about protecting non smokers from second hand smoking/inhalation,which makes sense

 

[Harry B]

Show me a Racially Diverse country where folks aint on that NIMBY shyt.

The major cities over there are very diverse

 

[Harry B]

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

I can see a train there.

So this probably includes people riding to the train to commute. And I also guess it’s not for everyone but for those who have the possibility. Not for the people families that life in the suburbs. Like it would work in NY if you lived and worked in manhattan. It would definitely work in SF if it wasn’t built like Mount Everest.

I mean a lot of people do bike. Cause hey hang out, work and live within a restricted area in a major city like Chi, NY or Boston. That’s also cause older cities were built for horse and carriage, so naturally riding works

 

[The Fade]

American Boomers gotta go

Riding an e-bike around the city is amazing

 

[ViShawn]

Our infrastructure isn't made for that. We'd have to build that from the ground up

 

[Jalether]

American Boomers gotta go

Riding an e-bike around the city is amazing

San francisco and seattle are the only cities in America that tries to make its cities bike friendly

98 percent of American cities are hellish for bikers and even pedestrians

 

[Givethanks]

Doesn't it barley snow in Amsterdam, I heard their canal barley freezes.

Whoa trying to bike in -20 degree weather

 

[The Fade]

San francisco and seattle are the only cities in America that tries to make its cities bike friendly

98 percent of American cities are hellish for bikers and even pedestrians

Man I forgot which city I was in in Texas but riding a bike over the bridge at night back to my hotel after partying

 

[papa pimp]

i like the infrastructure of Holland and the mixed bytches are but culturally I prefer plenty of other places.

 

[Chip Skylark]

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.

This is a fact! Something’s simply won’t work in America due to how aggressive American culture is.

 

[Amused Mastery]

Our infrastructure isn't made for that. We'd have to build that from the ground up

We had better city layouts overall before urban renewal was used to run highways through black neighborhoods

You try to propose any of this now at your local city planning meeting and the old white NIMBYs will try and shut it down on sight.

 

[bnew]

There is a time and place for everything, bikes and cars and other means of transportation are still necessary and critical for allowing people to commute freely

they have all forms of transportation we do but better.

 

[bnew]

I was impressed at the protected bike lanes in DC but Holland is on a different level. It's a bit sad how we can't get things like this in America. Imagine LA having a system like this for the upcoming Olympics.

we use to build rail lines just for major events.

 

[Elim Garak]

Americans would never go for this. We won't even get rid of guns that police are scared to fight against.