Cartoon Tuesday: A Little Inspiration from the Netherlands

3:22 PM PDT on October 20, 2009

Just in case I thoroughly depressed our cyclist readers with the overview of the timeline for the Draft Bike Plan, I wanted to provide some inspiration in the form of some funny and inspiring bike commercials from the Netherlands. H/t to Dave Feucht of the Streetsblog.net discussion group.

Fortunately, since I can't speak Dutch, the good people at Bike Forums are a couple of years ahead of me in translating. What follows is the rough translation of the ad above. After the jump are three more advertisements, two of them don't need a translation, but below the fourth advertisement is another translation. All translations by Nicodemus at Bike Forums.

The translation from above:

(macho key posing)announcement: attention: driver of a blue Saab... you forgot your parking brake.
(guy on left chuckles)
announcement: attention: the blue Saab went into the yellow Lotus
(guy on left cringes)
Cyclist at the back walks out smiling.
Zonder ongemakken? (without inconveniences?)Pak de fiets! (take the bike!)

The first phase is understanding.
And then you must take the initiative yourself.
And if he can do it himself, we let him loose.
Autoslavery is a serious problem
We must help these people.
Yeah, someone has to sit in traffic

Damien Newton

Cartoon Tuesday: A Little Inspiration from the Netherlands

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