Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Humans Outnumbered

There are a lot of bikes in Holland.

How many?

A lot.
The Dutch statistics office reports that the number of bicycles sold last year rose by 80,000 to 1.4 million. Around 85 percent of the population owns a bicycle and there are now 18 million bicycles in the Netherlands, which has just over 16 million people.

Last year the Dutch cycled a total of 14.7 billion kilometres, 1.4 billion kilometres more than they did 15 years ago.

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