American Fietser
@americanfietser.bsky.social
"Fietser" (Dutch) 'feet-ser' Meaning: A Person Who Bikes For Transportation; Infrastructure, City Design, E-Cargo Bike Ambassador, Brasil 🇧🇷🔗, Train & Aviation Enjoyer
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My wife and I, in our early 40s, going to dinner on one bike, because adding spice to life has become a priority.
She's reviewing the menu ahead of time. 🤳😉
She's reviewing the menu ahead of time. 🤳😉
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December 3, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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You can hit 124 miles per hour in the cheapest production car sold in america.
Love how much energy we all spend circle jerking over classes of ebikes while car culture runs around with metrics of multiple tons, hundreds of horsepower, and top speeds only limited in triple digits.
December 3, 2025 at 5:26 PM
You can hit 124 miles per hour in the cheapest production car sold in america.
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The Netherlands is investing in better intercity cycling routes, but progress is never uniform. The F58 from Breda to Tilburg shows both the ambition and the unfinished links. I rode the entire 23.5 km and traced the remaining works — new post with details and video.
How complete is the F58? Assessing the Breda–Tilburg Intercity Route
Recently Breda announced, via a short video on Facebook, that the F58 continuous-cycle route to Tilburg had been completed. The video’s title — “Did you know the continuous cycle route from Breda to Tilburg has been finished?” — prompted quite a reaction. “Don’t make me laugh,” wrote one viewer. He also pointed out a stretch of brick pavers in Dorst, to which someone else replied: “They were either out of money or out of asphalt!” Even so, …
bicycledutch.wordpress.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The Netherlands is investing in better intercity cycling routes, but progress is never uniform. The F58 from Breda to Tilburg shows both the ambition and the unfinished links. I rode the entire 23.5 km and traced the remaining works — new post with details and video.
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Winter really makes it clear just how little our cities care about anyone not traveling in a car. People use bike paths and sidewalks year-round!
Green Line Extension Community Bike Path very icy this morning!
December 3, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Winter really makes it clear just how little our cities care about anyone not traveling in a car. People use bike paths and sidewalks year-round!
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Xmas lights on a bike for 👌 vibes and visibility in the dark. It's festive!
December 3, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Xmas lights on a bike for 👌 vibes and visibility in the dark. It's festive!
"Look, we don't need to prioritize sidewalk maintenance because no one walks in winter time."
December 3, 2025 at 4:50 PM
"Look, we don't need to prioritize sidewalk maintenance because no one walks in winter time."
In 2025, I'd advise leaning heavily on policies that afford the freedom of choice in mobility for Americans. Forced car dependency has stolen countless lives and robbed both private and public coffers of financial freedom.
Michigan’s auto industry put America on wheels, and I’m fighting to keep us in the driver’s seat. 🚗🚚⚙️
December 3, 2025 at 4:47 PM
In 2025, I'd advise leaning heavily on policies that afford the freedom of choice in mobility for Americans. Forced car dependency has stolen countless lives and robbed both private and public coffers of financial freedom.
As I pushed my cart of groceries out to the car this morning that cost $168, I couldn't help but stare at it the whole way through the parking lot thinking about how this used to not be more than say...$75.
December 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
As I pushed my cart of groceries out to the car this morning that cost $168, I couldn't help but stare at it the whole way through the parking lot thinking about how this used to not be more than say...$75.
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December 3, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Winter in American cities means choosing between potential injury on an unmaintained sidewalk or potential death from walking in the clean streets with cars.
December 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Winter in American cities means choosing between potential injury on an unmaintained sidewalk or potential death from walking in the clean streets with cars.
This should open the company up to be prosecuted for any injuries or deaths caused by their vehicles and their operators.
Love to share the road with cars programmed to blast past speed limits
Tesla brings back 'Mad Max' 'Full Self-Driving' mode that ignores speed limits
Tesla has brought back its 'Mad Max' mode for 'Full Self-Driving (Supervised) that ignores speed limits amid several investigations.
electrek.co
December 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
This should open the company up to be prosecuted for any injuries or deaths caused by their vehicles and their operators.
My wife and I spent about an hour and two YouTube videos last night trying to figure out how the new car seat we got works.
December 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM
My wife and I spent about an hour and two YouTube videos last night trying to figure out how the new car seat we got works.
Taking the car to go get groceries today simply because I know there will be multiple instances where bike infrastructure is not clear of mounded snow where it meets the clean and clear streets for cars. A city gets the traffic they design and maintain for.
December 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Taking the car to go get groceries today simply because I know there will be multiple instances where bike infrastructure is not clear of mounded snow where it meets the clean and clear streets for cars. A city gets the traffic they design and maintain for.
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Had a discussion in the coffee shop about how car speeds are excessive and limiting at 100 was reasonable - my point was cars without a roll cage just shouldn’t go that fast.
The other individual then recounted an elaborate story going 115 (the cars factory limit) and being passed by a mustang. 🤦♂️
The other individual then recounted an elaborate story going 115 (the cars factory limit) and being passed by a mustang. 🤦♂️
Love how much energy we all spend circle jerking over classes of ebikes while car culture runs around with metrics of multiple tons, hundreds of horsepower, and top speeds only limited in triple digits.
December 3, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Had a discussion in the coffee shop about how car speeds are excessive and limiting at 100 was reasonable - my point was cars without a roll cage just shouldn’t go that fast.
The other individual then recounted an elaborate story going 115 (the cars factory limit) and being passed by a mustang. 🤦♂️
The other individual then recounted an elaborate story going 115 (the cars factory limit) and being passed by a mustang. 🤦♂️
Downtown "traffic" doesn't have to be dangerous.
45 minute timelapse of Vredenburg in Utrecht, which can only be used by people on public transport, walking or cycling. Buses do not get delayed in queues or behind people cycling and people cycling are kept safe. You get safer cycling, faster transit, quieter streets, and a city that actually works
December 3, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Downtown "traffic" doesn't have to be dangerous.
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"We need regulation of e-bikes!!!" people scream as SUVs and trucks get larger and deadlier and people speed and drive distracted with impunity.
I'm happy to talk about e-bike regulation as long as folks agree that the *most urgent* problem is cars.
I'm happy to talk about e-bike regulation as long as folks agree that the *most urgent* problem is cars.
Love how much energy we all spend circle jerking over classes of ebikes while car culture runs around with metrics of multiple tons, hundreds of horsepower, and top speeds only limited in triple digits.
December 3, 2025 at 1:48 PM
"We need regulation of e-bikes!!!" people scream as SUVs and trucks get larger and deadlier and people speed and drive distracted with impunity.
I'm happy to talk about e-bike regulation as long as folks agree that the *most urgent* problem is cars.
I'm happy to talk about e-bike regulation as long as folks agree that the *most urgent* problem is cars.
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Despite a completely fucked information environment that is bad for Democrats, voters are correctly clocking that Republicans are the problem. We can complain about media coverage, but when this administration is speedrunning fascism and making everything more expensive, it's hard not to notice.
December 3, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Despite a completely fucked information environment that is bad for Democrats, voters are correctly clocking that Republicans are the problem. We can complain about media coverage, but when this administration is speedrunning fascism and making everything more expensive, it's hard not to notice.
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An alerted driver is a good driver. As soon as they start to relax it’s becoming dangerous for everybody else
December 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
An alerted driver is a good driver. As soon as they start to relax it’s becoming dangerous for everybody else
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Right wingers & reactionaries lost when Brooklyn’s Court Street gained a bike lane.
It’s now safer, quieter, easier to cross the street, bikes and cars aren’t intermixed, and car traffic doesn’t speed only to halt at reds.
And contrary to their lies, ambulances move just fine:
It’s now safer, quieter, easier to cross the street, bikes and cars aren’t intermixed, and car traffic doesn’t speed only to halt at reds.
And contrary to their lies, ambulances move just fine:
December 3, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Right wingers & reactionaries lost when Brooklyn’s Court Street gained a bike lane.
It’s now safer, quieter, easier to cross the street, bikes and cars aren’t intermixed, and car traffic doesn’t speed only to halt at reds.
And contrary to their lies, ambulances move just fine:
It’s now safer, quieter, easier to cross the street, bikes and cars aren’t intermixed, and car traffic doesn’t speed only to halt at reds.
And contrary to their lies, ambulances move just fine:
Love how much energy we all spend circle jerking over classes of ebikes while car culture runs around with metrics of multiple tons, hundreds of horsepower, and top speeds only limited in triple digits.
December 3, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Love how much energy we all spend circle jerking over classes of ebikes while car culture runs around with metrics of multiple tons, hundreds of horsepower, and top speeds only limited in triple digits.
Good urban design introduces "visual friction".
Where cars mix with people, the street shouldn't feel like a highway. Texture, color, and complexity force drivers to slow down and pay attention. Design needs to eliminate the comfort of distraction that comes with excessive asphalt and white paint.
Where cars mix with people, the street shouldn't feel like a highway. Texture, color, and complexity force drivers to slow down and pay attention. Design needs to eliminate the comfort of distraction that comes with excessive asphalt and white paint.
December 3, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Good urban design introduces "visual friction".
Where cars mix with people, the street shouldn't feel like a highway. Texture, color, and complexity force drivers to slow down and pay attention. Design needs to eliminate the comfort of distraction that comes with excessive asphalt and white paint.
Where cars mix with people, the street shouldn't feel like a highway. Texture, color, and complexity force drivers to slow down and pay attention. Design needs to eliminate the comfort of distraction that comes with excessive asphalt and white paint.
Hear me out...
What if we just reset the Internet and try again?
What if we just reset the Internet and try again?
December 3, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Hear me out...
What if we just reset the Internet and try again?
What if we just reset the Internet and try again?
Congestion pricing when?
And guess what the solution is? More safe and convenient options for Chicagoans other than driving!!! Car traffic congestion in Paris, London and NYC have not increased, hmmm, wonder why???
chicago.suntimes.com/transportati...
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Chicago overtakes NYC for worst vehicle congestion in the US, survey says
Chicago is at the top nationally again amid growing traffic globally, thanks in part to NYC keeping traffic steady after implementing a traffic surcharge in Manhattan.
chicago.suntimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Congestion pricing when?
Apparently there's a bill being introduced into the Senate that would disallow Americans to hold dual citizenship elsewhere. Republicans are a cancer and their ideology needs to be mentally eradicated.
December 3, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Apparently there's a bill being introduced into the Senate that would disallow Americans to hold dual citizenship elsewhere. Republicans are a cancer and their ideology needs to be mentally eradicated.
PSA 👇
I have been banging my head against this wall with consumers, land managers and elected officials for over half a decade.
December 3, 2025 at 1:19 AM
PSA 👇