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A week of biking joyously - An account of a Bikes Belong workshop in the Netherlands
By Jay Walljasper
May 30, 2012
I joined a team of latter-day explorers in the Netherlands in September on a quest to discover what American communities can learn from the Dutch about transforming bicycling in the United States from a largely recreational pastime to an integral part of our transportation system. Patrick Seidler, vice-chairman of the Bikes Belong Foundation (www.bikesbelong.org), and the sponsor of this fact-finding mission for key decision-makers from the San Francisco Bay Area, announced we were in search of the “27% solution”—the health, environmental, economic and community benefits gained in a nation where more than a quarter of all daily trips are made on bicycle…
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