There is a large group of people in the Netherlands who also benefit from the well-designed cycling infrastructure: people with disabilities. They can use hand-operated bicycles or tricycles or mobility scooters to get from A to B. The cycle tracks offer them good protection from motorized traffic and thus a freedom to independently move around.
More info in the blog post: http://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2012/12/06/who-else-benefits-from-the-dutch-cycling-infrastructure/
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Who else benefits? Motorists do, actually.
Can you imagine a dutch inner city where all the cyclists would be in a car instead?
Gridlock from hell!
So when you are in your car, stuck in traffic, and you see hundreds of bicycles passing you by, don't be annoyed with them.
Be grateful. And realise that without them, you would be worse off. A lot worse.
Cycling means just riding bicycle in my country.
But i got more meaning from this.
Old Dutch police uniforms! <3
The Thumbnail looks like 90 year old Jeremy Clarkson on a scooter in Amsterdam :))
It almost makes you emotional….
You know this video is OLD when you see those police/cops xD
No one wears a helmet! A professional cyclist said they were useless.
Yes, there is a much better system in The Netherlands. We cannot even use the inadequate cycle paths in the UK!
1:10 jan brasser tunnel krommenie-assendelft station
why is the netherlands so perfect tho
Motorcycles should not use cyclıng ınfrastructure
Short answer before even watching: Everyone. There is nobody who suffers from (good) cycling infrastructure in the long term.
Please stop shortening the word "infrastructure" to "infra". Nobody does that in English.
2:41 great picture of man racing in the path of 2 cops, in the USA he probably would have been tased , handcuffed, beaten and chucked in the back of a police car.
More than ever before.
I wish it was more like this in Texa. I like riding, but hate riding on roads. Way too dangerous with the idiot drivers here.
No! Until recently yes, but lately more and more municipalities (which own the mobility scooters) reduce the max speed to 8km/h (5M/h). 8km/h is too slow for bicycle paths. Not forbidden, but dangerously slow.
Think of the $$ saved on bath pay maintenance. What damage can bikes cause?
One of the things I tell all my friends that do not live in the Nederland's is the Dutch do not have bike lanes as they understand them. They are stranger then expected but a lot better.
Thank you for this video! Where I live, Gatineau, Québec (Canada), we need to learn from you! 😀😂
Indahnya..
wow… So this isn't just tolerated, but its by design – which also explains, why you can live with these sometimes very narrow sidewalks. And the mobility scooters look a lot faster than the agonizing 6 km/h they are limited to here in Germany.