The Netherlands has more bikes than people. Literally over 23 million bikes for 17 million people. It’s like a pedal powered paradise. So, what’s the most bike friendly place you’ve ever been to? And should more cities be like this? Let me know in the comments.
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There's quite a few more videos like this on YT.
The Netherlands is clearly ahead of the curve.
https://youtu.be/Boi0XEm9-4E
And americans have more guns than people
Amsterdam and Copenhagen.
Tilburg over here 😂😂😂we bike everywhere work,school,birthday parties, dinner, and still have a car for going out of the city 😂😂😂😂😂❤❤I have 2 bikes 🚲 😂😂
Münster!
I'm one person and I have four bikes 😬
Paris has become much more bike-friendly these recent years but it has brought a vicious side-effect : has more people use bikes, the part of people who would behave badly while driving a car behave as badly while riding a bike: rude, not taking into account of traffic lights, riding on sidewalks outside of established bike corridors, and an incredible sense of entitlement, even worse than car drivers because they're using an environment-, health-friendly transport. "Le Monde" published recently a paper about this: what was the symbol of being "cool" and "chill" is becoming another emblem of rudeness and jerkassery. That's so frustrating.
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Some countries have more bikes than people, some more guns.
Hhhmmmmm, where do YOU prefer to live?
As someone who lives in the netherlands. I can confidently say that the most hated vehicle at the moment around here. Is a type of bicycle.
As an American having a inanimate object overpopulate humans is not that surprising
17 million people ay
other than Amsterdam, Malmö in Sweden was pretty bike friendly.
How many of them were stolen soemwhere else?
Gothenburg, Sweden is not very bike friendly. All these cars and trams and stuff you have to give way to. I tell you, cyklists can't even run over one little person without people getting mad. They just don't get that the bike people are gods among men and everyone should part and let them through no matter how fast they're going. If you can't predict the future, tough, bikeists are always right. /s
And if that doesn't scare you, take one step into a bike lane in central Gothenburg and see what happens.
Denmark
And yes
I've been to the Netherlands, but also spent half a year in a pretty bicycle friendly town in Germany. It wasn't so much about the infrastructure there, but about the car drivers. 🤗
Facts.. i have two bikes for me alone
Oulu
Well, the most bike friendly place i've ever been to (aside from any part of the Netherlands, of course) is Freiburg im Breisgau, the city i moved to as soon as i became an adult and have lived in ever since, till i moved in with my partner (20 minutes car ride away).
This city also has more bikes than people, it was governed by the Greens (a green eco party) for decades and it's called the Green city for the huge effort the city has put into becoming eco-friendly: less cars, more public transportations, bikes everywhere, alternative energy (like, we have whole hospitals running on solar and biowaste alone), much more trees and gras than in comparable cities in GErmany, and a water cycle system that is built on sustainability. People often also call it the 'Gutmenschen' or 'Hippie' city and they not wrong. Summers here are terrible though, it's hot, humid, stuffy, not the slightest bit of wind (surrounded by mountains on all sides). Even the ground, which is a hot plate valley plateau, is giving off heat all the time. I never thought i'd see heat haze on a daily basis anywhere in Germany till i moved here.
Lots of bike rental places in the touristy areas so makes sense
La Rochelle in France is an extremely bike friendly city, the ex mayor from aroud 30years ago (I may be wrong about the date but you get the idea) was one of the first in France to implement bike only parts in the town, and now every year they build new cycle path there and it is amazing
Absolutely more cities should be more bike friendly, tbh in my country (Argentina) is not that bad, decently friendly IMO, but I hear from friends in the USA that cities are basically a no go to get around with bikes, best chance is a town. And that's just unnecessary, specially when you see all the highways and shit. Closest thing I've seen is Comodoro Rivadavia, lots of unnecessary empty space to go on car but good luck getting by bike
It's only paradise if you can ride a bike. For the rest of us, it's a nightmare. A form of discrimination against mobility challenged people.
I hated biking in the Netherlands, so no
No. Bikers and cyclists suck to regular people trying to be productive.
Over 23 Million bikes 😮 interesting
The Netherlands are one of the most bike friendly places.
Münsterland is similar… I had 3 bicycles when I lived there. One that could be stolen and I used it for cycling to work. One for long distance and one for mountainbiking. The MTB I sometimes lent to my friends when we just wanted to bike for some hours
The Netherlands has more bikes than people while the US has more weapons than citizens. Every country has their special thing going on.
I got 2. An E-bike I use to travel bigger distances. To work or next door villages etc, and only when I can safely stall it and a bike what almost falls apart, but it still works so hey ho, lets go. For quick groceries or to ride home when I have been drinking. That if you fall you dont fall doing 25km/h🙃
I live rural in the Netherlands. Husband has 1 old E-bike.
I hope that more cities become bike friendly
In Germany, I recommend Muenster in North Rheine Westphalia. It is a bit like the German Netherlands…
We are three person in our family and we have a bikes to scooter
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Denmark is also said to have more bikes than people. 90% of the population own minimum 1 bike. While only 56% of Danish households have a car
According to the city of Copenhagen, a city the size of Amsterdam, it has 1 million fewer sick days annually thanks to bikes
Kopenhagen was pretty nice