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Did you read the rest of the article? The entire point of the article is that by one measure, the Dutch hardly bike at all, while by another measure, the Dutch
by pwinnski 7y ago
Did you read the rest of the article? The entire point of the article is that by one measure, the Dutch hardly bike at all, while by another measure, the Dutch bike all the time, and that the difference is that there are destinations that makes a mile or two round-trip plenty in Dutch cities, but not in American cities.
- MiroF 7y agoYou're totally missing the point of the above comment. The entire article is premised on "by one measure, the Dutch hardly bike at all," but 2.5 km/day/capita is fucking huge.
- pwinnski 7y agoIf I draw circles around my home at .75km or 1.25km, I get almost entirely other houses, and roads. Lots of roads. In most of America, a 2.5km round trip gets you almost nowhere useful. It's almost nothing. On an American scale, it's hardly anything at all. The average American[0] drives more than 59 km per day, so even at the most generous number from the article, that's 4%. That's the point of the article, the entire point. [0] https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/01/25/the-average-american-drives-this-much-each-year-ho.aspx https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/01/25/the-averag...