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Brent ToderianThe Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart govts do the math on investing in better mobility.
Let’s be clear — it wastes public money to NOT do it.
😀🚲@BrentToderian @modacitylife but here in the US, we waste private money on health care and then waste 10x as much public money on the problems caused by that policy. But that doesn't even begin to account for what we waste on cars.
Gordon J Holtslander@BrentToderian @modacitylife There’s no “free parking” how much of North American’s grocery cost go to paying for that huge parking lot at your grocer. Netherlands, one bikes or walks to the grocery? https://youtu.be/kYHTzqHIngk?si=UxeNPbmGL-ASEvBx
Why Grocery Shopping is Better in Amsterdam
Iza Running AgainIt's incredibly smart investment to build urban spaces around the idea you want people to be able to walk and cycle. Doing that makes it possible for people to take part in activity that is very important to physical, mental, and emotional health.
Cars are killing us here in America.
Victor Gijsbers@BrentToderian @modacitylife The bottom right is Utrecht at the Dafne Schippers-brug, on which I cycle quite regularly. Nice to randomly see it appear here. 😀
PeteThe Netherlands are very flat which makes it easy to cycle, and Amsterdam's city centre is very well established, and dense, and difficult to adapt to make vehicle access easy. Bikes are the obvious solution.
Not everywhere is as conducive.
Rickd6@modacitylife @BrentToderian thank you for this post- I did repost it on LinkedIn.