nostr:npub1psyu32rex4g3h8zvnqsf5jculys07nq7gsuuvv6wme4j0r7qd9lsh3pasy don't get me wrong, I'm all for bicycles and greener ways of moving people around.

it's just that "bicycles in the netherlands" should never be used as a run-of-the-mill example to which one should aspire.

the NL famously is a flat country. of course biking is great there! most of us, though, have the misfortune to live in hilly areas. that NL example doesn't apply as well to us as one may think.

it's as good as asking us to stick our finger into a wall.

(bicycles still rule, though.)