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Serious inquiry: how do people with large families move around in places like Copenhagen or Amsterdam, where the primary mode of transport is bicycles?
by buzzert 4y ago
Serious inquiry: how do people with large families move around in places like Copenhagen or Amsterdam, where the primary mode of transport is bicycles?
- sbaiddn 4y agoPeople in Copenhagen don't have large families.
- canucker2016 4y agodcrainmaker has 3 young girls. He uses a cargo bike it seems, even for Christmas tree shopping. His partner rides along side on her own bike. I assume once the girls get old enough, they'll ride their own bikes. For larger families, I guess each parent would get a cargo bike and split the load. see https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2020/12/getting-the-christmas-tree-home-via-bike-2020-edition.html https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2020/12/getting-the-christmas-tr...
- mikrotikker 4y agoCool story I'm sure the children will love riding their bikes in driving sleet through the snow at night on the way home from the supermarket.
- Symbiote 4y agoWhat is a large family? You can fit 5 people in most normal cars, and 7 (especially children) in some estate cars / station wagons. Failing that a minivan, although that's unusual. Many people in Copenhagen and Amsterdam own a car, the difference is they don't use it for every journey. They're also much less likely to own two or more cars than in America. A child seat on an ordinary bicycle is very common, typically for taking a small child to nursery. Cargo bikes work too, and are good if you have more than one child, although they're much less common than YouTubers would have you believe. Once children can ride their own bicycle they will, and later they can ride alone. Similarly, they can use public transport, with their parents or alone.
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- QIYGT 4y agoNot sure how large you mean, but for <=3 kids: walking, metro, bus, cargo bike, taxi. I'm in NYC, and I'll take a 10 minute walk to the supermarket with my kids over a 10 minute drive any day.