http://amsterdamize.com/2008/12/18/so-16-years-later-what-gives/ With love, from the certified Bicycle Capital of the World Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:09:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://amsterdamize.com/2008/12/18/so-16-years-later-what-gives/comment-page-1/#comment-119 Fast Lanes, Perspective & A Sleeping Giant | Amsterdamize Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:08:10 +0000 http://amsterdamize.com/?p=40#comment-119 [...] So, if you’ve been following Mikael, David Hembrow and this blog, you can see the Dutch and the Danes have a similarly serious approach to cycling and appropriated means to enable it. However, there are literally hundreds of towns and cities in the Netherlands that have comparable or higher cycling rates (such as Groningen – currently close to 60%, Utrecht – 35%, or a smaller town like Houten – 55%) than Copenhagen. Amsterdam is still trying to figure out what the real modal rate is, but this fine city has achieved something memorable, as more trips are by undertaken by bike than by car. [...] [...] So, if you’ve been following Mikael, David Hembrow and this blog, you can see the Dutch and the Danes have a similarly serious approach to cycling and appropriated means to enable it. However, there are literally hundreds of towns and cities in the Netherlands that have comparable or higher cycling rates (such as Groningen – currently close to 60%, Utrecht – 35%, or a smaller town like Houten – 55%) than Copenhagen. Amsterdam is still trying to figure out what the real modal rate is, but this fine city has achieved something memorable, as more trips are by undertaken by bike than by car. [...]

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