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Old 07-03-13, 01:17 PM
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Originally Posted by spare_wheel
Except that Holland *IS* very flat. Moreover, the couple of km stat came from the Dutch Bureau of Statistics. Specifically, the average round trip distance was 4.3 km or ~1.3 miles one way.
As if people only commute... Wonder how they get groceries, see friends, run errands... you know all those things that folks in the US jump in the car for.

Stats for America list 40% of all errands at only about 2 miles and commutes at around 14 miles... yet we "need" a car for those?
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