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Five hours on a train and bike

I can think of worse fates, especially if I can get some reading and writing done ;)

The Guardian: “Could you handle five hours on the train and in the saddle every day?”, by Jules Acton.

You’ll need patience, forebearance and and the ability to change your clothes in the street, but cyclo-railing can and does work.

You know when your granddad dies and you tell your friends? How they don’t quite know what to say, and you find yourself actually comforting them?

Well, it’s a bit like that when you mention you travel for five hours a day by train and bicycle. But cyclo-railing isn’t all bad.

Morning rush hour in Utrecht

Bicycles galore, buses, light rail, a few cars and trucks. It might be heaven! :)

Morning rush hour in the 4th largest city in the Netherlands. Streets look like this when 33% of ALL trips are made by bicycle!

This is an ordinary Wednesday morning in April 2010 at around 8.30 am. Original time was 8 minutes that were compressed into 2 minutes, so everything is 4 times faster than in reality. The sound is original.

This is one of the busiest junctions in Utrecht a city with a population of 300,000. No less than 18,000 bicycles and 2,500 buses pass here every day. And yet Google Street View missed it. Because private motorized traffic is restricted here.

Via Urbanvelo.org