> Getting around on an electric bike will prolong your life. Not if you get killed by a car. That's his point. Bikes are great, but much more so in a society

> Getting around on an electric bike will prolong your life. Not if you get killed by a car. That's his point. Bikes are great, but much more so in a society that recognises the benefits of bikes than in a society that sees than as alien and as targets. It does help when more people start to bike. There is safety in numbers, not to mention more understanding and recognition. Netherland has the advantage that we've never really gotten rid of our bikes; as soon as cars were about to take over in the 1960s, people started to fight back. People here have been fighting for bikes and against cars for more than 50 years. In the US, that fight doesn't even have remotely the kind of momentum that it had in Netherland 50 years ago, so there's quite a lot of distance to catch up there.