If anyone has any connections to the city fathers/mothers in their town, see if you can get this to the appropriate people. This is a fantastic video of a UK Parliamentary excursion to The Netherlands to investigate how their biking/public transit work together. Normal people, in normal clothes, biking EVERYWHERE, carrying everything from small bags to a CELLO. Hand to god, I’m not making this up. It’s towards the end of the video. Women in high-heeled boots, no spandex in sight.
Here’s the link again, in case you missed it up above: Biking in The Netherlands
Much thanks to JustWilliams for posting the link on his blog!
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Bike Fatalities in Portland « The Wandering Mind // May 25, 2009 at 9:01 am |
[...] helmet. I wonder if he had been wearing a helmet if he might have survived. In the video posted in a previous post here, there were no helmets on any of the cyclists in Amsterdam (I believe that’s where it was [...]
Les // June 12, 2009 at 5:06 pm |
They don’t wear helmets over there. We didn’t when we visited. It’s simply “different” in Holland. We never felt at risk. Here we do, Ho hum…..
Digital Dame // June 12, 2009 at 6:04 pm |
Oh, that would be so nice to feel safe and free enough to ride without a helmet!