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You'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 i

• pwinnski 7y ago
  If 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...