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

[Jalether]

Every country needs this

When I visited amsterdam and rotterdam last december, everyone and their gradma rode bikes and it was the most common form of public transport

 

[ALMIGHTY GOD]

fukk off biker fakkit

 

[Roger king]

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

 

[Luke Cage]

we have bike paths over here too,

I don't see the point in riding bikes indoors though, just build an escalator like we do in airports.

 

[Apollo Creed]

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

 

[morris]

Too many bike in the PARK when I was there. Barely anyone walking (near Van Gogh museum)

 

[DJ Paul's Arm]

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

 

[Premeditated]

be careful op before they accuse you of being a commie trying to take away their cars

 

[Nabs]

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.

 

[Pure Water]

This is possible in every city in the US. The auto industry just fukked everyone over to sell cars.

 

[Swirv]

Oil and car industry over here are heavy in the lobby game. All these people care about is money in the US and be “better” than the next person, got the whole country in a trickbag.

We need a mentality shift here on a grand scale.

 

[JT-Money]

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.

 

[Windows 91]

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.

 

[Digital Omen]

As a biker that's what I loved about AMS and Rotterdam...people pull up on their bike, hop the ferry, and pedal on out the boat. Quick to run your ass over if you're lollygagging in the bike lane too.

We can't have nice things here cuz of the car lobby

 

[desjardins]

Some of the suburban sprawl cities might be too far gone for real biking infrastructure but it's no reason why older more dense cities don't improve
My city is trying but it's so much push back from the public. There's this whole thing in my city where people don't realize/understand that bikers are supposed to ride in the street . Which causes them to get road rage. Every year double digit amount of bikers die. Any and every bike infrastructure that is done gets criticism online and whataboutism attacks "why they building bike barriers when we need money for xyz"
Infrastructure that cost money + minimal public support + hostile ass drivers = horrible experience being a biker in my town