I freely admit that I’m a big hypocrite when it comes to using my bike for transportation rather than recreation, but I do admire the people of the Netherlands for their steadfast resolve to replace automobile travel with bicycling whenever feasible.

This neat film, “Groningen: The World’s Cycling City”, explains how it can be accomplished. They managed to increase the bike share of city travel to nearly sixty percent in a generation by pedestrianizing streets, creating ubiquitous bike lanes and designing unique transport circulation patterns. How many other cities could reduce dependence on cars by even ten or twenty percent by following Groningen’s example.

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• Groningen: The World’s Cycling City (streetfilms.org)
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• Campus bike share program could be coming to University of Iowa (thegazette.com)
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• A Tour of a Whole Country That Has ‘Transformed Itself for Cycling’ (theatlanticcities.com)