Re: Visiting Bike City in the world: Amsterdam

In article <6e160525-b907-49e2-8ab4-aabfa51bdf89@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Red Cloud <mmdir2005@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

Transportation fact in Amsterdam (1995)
1. Transporter usage in Amsterdam
Bicycle: 33%
Publican transporation: 25%
Private Automobile : 42%

2. Public Demostration for "Amsterdam car free!":
Amsterdam bicycle culture is resulted of the during 60's -
70's citizen
protest for the city witout automobile. They protest is about
preserving
the tradition street and building that could be destoryed by
the expand automobile roads.

3. Hump:
Physical barrier forcing the motorist to slow down so to
provide more safety for the biker

4. Woonerf: Progressive traffic policy
- Protect the biker and pedestrain from automobile
- First traffic policy in the world to protect the non-
motorist from automobile

5. 'Traffic death per 10,000 motorists
Amsterdam: 0.19
Major US City: 2.34

Amsterdam is a smallish, confined municipality
within a larger country. Fairly good hashish.
The putahs are happy to take your money and
then kick you out, and take on the next customer.

Bicycle theft is rampant, but I put that down
to a local cultural regard of bicycles as
communal chattles.

Ride beyond Amsterdam's city limits and you're
in the world at large. You're on your own,
which is good. You get a chance to spread your
shoulders a little. We North Americans
pathologically /need/ to be able to spread our
shoulders, and not be cramped or scrunched-in
among the madding throng. That's the real reason
why bike lanes are so disliked. A lot of the
North American concept of "freedom" involves having
enough room in which to swing a dog.



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