[HN Gopher] The Best-Kept Secret of Dutch Biking: The Dutch Hard...
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       The Best-Kept Secret of Dutch Biking: The Dutch Hardly Bike at All
       (2018)
        
       Author : Tomte
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2025-03-18 19:52 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.peopleforbikes.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.peopleforbikes.org)
        
       | mpol wrote:
       | Many things have happened since 2016 or 2018. It is much more
       | busy on cyclepaths since corona. There don't seems to be data
       | that is easily accessible. If someone can read CBS Statline,
       | please tell more.
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       | https://opendata.cbs.nl/statline/#/CBS/nl/navigatieScherm/th...
        
       | exceptione wrote:
       | They left out one important travel method: walking.
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       | In Utrecht, if you don't bike, you walk usually.
        
         | madison256 wrote:
         | The last chart did show the percentage and distance for walking
         | compared to cars, bikes and transit.
        
       | considering4321 wrote:
       | The open secret of Americans not walking or biking anywhere is
       | that it is a low trust society where the mentally ill, unhoused,
       | and criminal are highly concentrated and roam freely to harass in
       | dense urban areas, and individuals in their late 20s and 30s with
       | a high level of social and financial capital flee urban cores,
       | especially when they begin family formation, which turns our
       | urban areas into scary "young family deserts" where it is the
       | young and single trying to make it, the workers there (during the
       | daytime), and the criminal underclass and unhoused & crazy all
       | the time. It gives our cities a sterile, dangerous, dystopian
       | feeling that makes it hard to feel safe walking or biking around
       | unprotected (compared to a locked 3000 pound car that shields you
       | on all sides).
        
         | TRiG_Ireland wrote:
         | And the fact that many car drivers have a hatred of cyclists,
         | and deliberately terrorise them.
        
       | fjfaase wrote:
       | I recently started walking to work, because by bike it is only 11
       | minutes and I felt I did not get enough exersize. Walking takes
       | up about 33 minutes for the same distance. With my precious job,
       | it took me abou 25 minutes biking to work. I think that the
       | travel time is an important factor in the selected mode of
       | transportation.
        
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