“If you want to get more people cycling in Australia, you need to make it more attractive, easy and fun.”
Paul van Bellen.
In May 2011 Paul will lead 25 Australian cycling thinkers over a 500km, 13 day tour in The Netherlands, one of the world’s most cycle friendly countries. Filmmakers Rowena Crowe and Paulo Alberton will follow and record van Bellen’s tour as his team studies innovations and attitudes in cycling. Rowena and Paulo will shape the material collected into web friendly stories and information for a website called www.cyclingdutchstyle.com, and also into a documentary, once participants of the tour return to their homes and routines in Australia. The website will be fully up and functional by early March 2011.
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Ontzagwekkend….. 🙂 (According to the translator on my Mac)
Gaaf! But possible synonyms (is that with an s?) are:
Vet! Tof! And a more less 'Dutch' synonym: Cool!
That's awe-inspiring 😉
i don't understand why people want to make cycling more attractive, you got to make driving a car more unattractive. Heavy fines, difficult parking, loades of traffic, that'll get you on a bike
It won't, it just leads to busy roads and unhappy drivers, the UK is a good example. Driving is expensive and the roads are busy, but nobody wants to cycle on busy roads, so driving a car is the least terrible way of getting around.
Your partly right. There needs to be a carrot and a stick mentality, but you need the carrot as well as the stick.
I would love to go on a trip to The Netherlands, and be a cycling ambassador if I could afford it.
i get that. i was thinking too much NL here i guess, i kinda figured there would be proper bicycle lanes so you don't have to cycle the busy roads.
Sadly not, outside the Netherlands many countries just don't care about cyclists 😛
Geweldig.
awesome.
People under 20 don't say gaaf anymore?? Lol that makes me feel old XD
Want to increase cycling? Drop the compulsory helmet law. Allow people to choose how they want to ride. There is a reason less than 1% of the dutch wear helmets and yet have one of the worlds lowest rates of bicyclist injuries. Infra has more of an impact than the little provided by the helmet!
I'm lucky to live in a country that sees this and ride helmet free and have for the 30+ years of my life. It's really not as dangerous as some would make it out to be.
if you want to make cycling safer in countries like australia you must re-educate the ´moronic motorists´, or, better yet, get those idiots banned from driving for life…. you´ll find that the best drivers are the people that cycle as well.
dutch style checklist: no helmet, casual clothing/fancy dress, classy looking bike, saddlebags, relaxed, no fear
Exactly why I have just emigrated to the Netherlands from the shitty London/south east England region…..and I love it. Sorry for those in the rest of the world!
If Australia got rid of compulsory helmets, cycling would increase overnight.
Such a shame that I cannot find the websites. Curious about the experiences and the docu…..
Plaats is nog wat
Just get rid of the compulsory helmet law
Again Lord Mayor of Sydney Clover Moore didn't match up with her commitment. Some bike lanes are there now, but are largely used by cars to park in. Cyclists in Sydney are no safer today than they were back in 2010 when this video was made.