Cycling Friendly Cities

This is a lo-res version of a 15-minute movie that's available in hi-res on iTunes http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZ...

Or at http://carltonreid.libsyn.com/

The film features lots of happy cyclists from the Netherlands, Denmark and Colombia, and shows how creating a bicycle-friendly city is the civilised thing to do.

Scripted by Enrique Peñalosa, former mayor of Bogotá and the poster-child for city-wide bicycle advocacy, the movie was produced by the Netherlands-based Interface for Cycling Expertise (I-CE).

It was made in 2004 and received a financial contribution from the Dutch Directorate General for International Cooperation (DGIS). Shimano sponsored the CD distribution of the movie. These CDs are handed out at global cycle campaigning events.

www.Quickrelease.tv received permission to broadcast the film from I-CE. www.cycling.nl

• Category

  Autos & Vehicles

[Andrés Amor]

the Netherlands is setting an example for the whole world! I get so frustrated living in the United States. All you see are cars.....

also, the dutch can speak english amazingly!

[GabrieleSM]

Bicicle = one of the best inventions ever. These sounds like my kind of cities.

[AlexeyAbleyev]

I dont know.. But Here in Ukraine it usually -20 C in winter. I'm cyclist but winter Cycling? no.. hell no.

[Nehmo Sergheyev]

The Netherlands has always been a place of advanced thought. (They believe they started the US by the 1625 New Amsterdam [later named New York City] settlement.)

We of the US definitely should look to the Dutch for direction.

The Netherlands has one thirteenth the murder rate as the US. And they don't throw their children in prison for decades for victimless crimes.

I stayed in Amsterdam for 3 months once, and comparison is natural. I'm proud to be an American, but I'm also ashamed.

[Elena Garrulo]

You must be very unlucky if you have to ride a bike against the wind for 45 minutes straight. Even then, use gears, mate. You don't know how much stress you can release with some exercise.

[Elena Garrulo]

All you see in the USA are cars... and out of shape people. Look up the "Bicycle rush hour Utrecht (Netherlands) 2011" video and count how many out of shape people you see. Then American say it's because of their diet. The Dutch feast on bread and cheese, you know?

[Zachariah West]

I totally agree, only if it was like that here. I would be out and about every day. And, again: Bicycle = one of the best inventions ever. And, these are my kind of cites.....heck if I had the money for it. I would make the move.....lol.

[John Dutchman]

In the Netherlands you still have to have eyes in your back and look in 3 directions simultaneously. Traffic is to dense and cyclists are just like people in normal life more and more arrogant, and other people igoring bastards.We only bike for saving money and fun.

[ehilado06]

Why can't the US be more like the Netherlands :(

[R Walker]

Stereotype much? I'm Texan, Christian, hard right wing, and sufficiently redneck to annoy most. I bike around my town all the time, I bike for groceries, and gym, and banking; to pay my taxes and run errands. The bike helps me stay the fastest, meanest, healthiest, greyheaded ba****** on the block! :-D

[Charlie wonder]

This is real Development.

[sleepycatsqueeze]

sitting in the land of the living dead in 1st gear for 2 hours instead of getting 45 minutes excercise- is so much fun right ? ok, i am of too drive too the gym.. ;-) x