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Some of the most highly paid people at my office take public transport. This despite having their "VIP" parking place, living in suburbs, etc. Your example see
by bkor 7y ago
Some of the most highly paid people at my office take public transport. This despite having their "VIP" parking place, living in suburbs, etc.
Your example seems to be pretty unique in that it's really close to car industry. Some of your assumptions are completely off though.
In Netherlands our Prime minister takes a bicycle to work. He has way more influence than the top paid people in my office.
If you look at the history in The Netherlands it wasn't always a bicycle friendly country. Even in the last 10 years there's been many changes to make things different. For e.g. Utrecht a lot of work only happened in the last 2 years, see e.g. https://vimeo.com/344373585 https://vimeo.com/344373585.
Other changes are to reduce the speed for cars. Basically: road near a lot of other houses? 30km/h, then 50km/h for inner city roads. Outside of the city 80km/h. Safer for pedestrians, nicer for the people living there (the road is way less dangerous), plus immediately makes some alternative forms of transport a better alternative.
- ChuckNorris89 7y agoI understand your point but countries like The Netherlands and Denmark are totally different animals. They build their bike infrastructure for decades and never adopted a car culture. The rest of mainland Europe is totally different. Getting people now to bike everywhere isn't easy when all the jobs and homes have been built around driving distances for decades.
- magduf 7y ago> The Netherlands and Denmark are totally different animals. They build their bike infrastructure for decades and never adopted a car culture. That's not true at all; Netherlands was more of a car culture several decades ago, and had to work at bringing cycling back.