As an American living in the Netherlands, I never expected to say this, but bikes are sometimes better than cars here. Getting around faster to saving money and avoiding stress, biking in the Netherlands makes everyday life easier.
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Which do you prefer: bike or car?
Bike natuurlijk.
Bro…Fiets over autos…de hele dag lange… Zo blij voor je… Je woont in de beeste plaats in de wereld voor fietsen en gelukkig leven! Hella stoked for you. Thanks for the information.
very simple, I don't have a car so I have to make do with a bicycle and public transport
You forgot the most important reason which is: you can't use your car to go from pub to pub but you can use your bike 🍻
I think you feel more connected to your environment on a bike. You mastered the ch sound pretty well 😉. I hope you enjoy our kikkerlandje.
For a short distance, city centres and your sanity yes, for longer distances a car is more practical.
I live in The Netherlands, I have a car, a motorcycle, a bicycle, I can walk and there is good public transportation. When I go somewhere I chose what is fastest and most convenient and for me that is for 95% my trips biking or walking. The reason for this is that The Netherlands is designed that almost everywhere I need to go is close by and it is safe to bike or walk there. I only use my car for destinations outside my city, when I need to transport something big/heavy or in really bad weather. The motorcycle is just for fun.
The pros are that biking and walking are super cheap and you get light exercise i.e. you need to spend less time and money in the gym 😀
The infrastructure in the Netherlands is built for walking and cycling. This is a CONSCIOUS choice. The "Stop Child Murder" protest demonstrated that people were tired of encountering cars everywhere. Adapting the infrastructure took decades. The result of sensible choices.
great video… BUT I HOPE USA PEOPLE STAY IN USA….STAY HOME…
We also offer bicycle insurance. In case of breakdown, damage, or theft of your bike, you can receive support such as a temporary replacement bike, on-the-spot repairs, and/or a replacement bicycle. This type of coverage is available with providers like ANWB Bicycle Insurance, but similar options are offered by other insurers as well.
The Netherlands has more bicycles than people: over 23 Milion bicycles for about 18 Milion inhabitants. On average, Dutch people cycle more than 1000 km per person per year.
Welcome brother, glad you like it here. I work at 0:32 🙂 I briefly owned a car mostly to drive my kid around and go on vacation. A very nice Citroen, great travel drive but still a lot of cost of insurance, tax, fuel, maintenance, repairs, it's like taking care of an expensive fragile toddler. It cost me several thousand each year. My bike cost 350 €. Transport card €50. A train ride is like, €5, and trains are windpowered.
I am not very good at math but this one's easy – I win time, money and help save the planet just a little bit.
Folks seem to resent having to plan a trip by train, but they love to hop in a car and stand in a traffic jam for an hour but not wait ten minutes for a train. It's a mindfork, it's about some entitlement and imagined luxury.
Ironically most buses are a better ride than their cheap suv, these days it's all limousine air suspension.
And you don't have to be on guard like some kind of paranoid spacemonkey for swerving idiots and tailgaters.
Also, 100 tons of CO2 not blasted into the atmosphere is not bad, that is not even counting the damage from oil extraction for fuel and all the other pollution.
65 y/o Dutchie. Sold the car last year. Doing all transport and leisure on a electric transport bike. Totals about 100-150 km per week. Never felt better. Your Dutch sounds good my man.
in the 80s and 90s in amsterdam there where a lot of roads that you just where riding next to cars and semi trucks not even a painted line on the road but drivers just knew how to look out for people on bikes that is wy its good here to bike
Bikes are faster than cars. Because you can take shortcuts or go through back streets.
When they come to pick up the garbage from the people's homes, with a big truck. Every few meters that it stops to collect the garbage the cars have to wait behind it, but with a bike you can ride past it.
Bikes are better in cities, and for short distances…Faster, way cheaper, no parking problems, you can ride from your garden shed to the shop, no walking.. And way safer…
Haven't had a car for at least 10 years….using a moped…
A bike = FREEDOM
We have cars and bikes, that is the story…..
yes. I pretty much came out of my mom with a bike and a joint.
My only annoyances are flat tires, the chain falling off and wind.
And tourists, but i made a sport of out of it to scare jump them. 😉 They gotta learn somehow. Problem is, everyday we got new flocks coming in. So i bought myself a big ass honk and my bike is strong, but rattles like a MF. You can hear me coming from a mile away, if that doesn't clear the bike path. Then I'm really surprised that the person is still alive, how? Like a jellyfish? The markings are quite clear… Anyway…
No. Seriously, just no. All those 'bicycles are all you need' videos about the Netherlands are totall bullcrap. If, and only if, you happen to live in what's called the 'randstad' area, you might manage without a car (assuming you never travel abroad) . The enormous majority of the population does need a car to get around. Take it from a Dutchman who lives outside the randstad.
I have 3 cars, i sold it.
I prefer biking❤
As a Dane I agree. Also in Denmark we have an infrastucture to a high degree built on bikes.
Its easy when you have no hills. I need a shower after my ride to work in Wales bc literally the whole 5 mile trip is up and down hill. Plus it frikin rains all the time.
Those guys are millionaires you see daily on bikes. Average Netherlands person have half a million in their bank accounts
Ligt er aan waar je naar toe moet
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Exactly, those are the reasons why a bike is better than a car, Most trips are lass than 5 km (if you know what kilometers are). Another advantage: you don't need to wear a helmet, unless you're over 70 en ride an e-bike at 25 km/h..