One in five commuters in Brussels cycles to work, a study by HR group Acerta finds. The number is a record, and an increase of more than 40 per cent in four years. Public transport remains the most popular means of transport in the capital, while the car is number one in the rest of the country.
I live in Belgium. We have that system. For some reason, VRT didn’t think it was “important enough” to say, but I guess it is pretty ubiquitous here. This + electric bikes are the real reason so many bike to work.
We do get paid per km for biking to work. Tax-free to a maximum of something like 0.37€/km or so. 3690€ per year. Some people live an hour away from work and will buy one of those 8-10k€ strömer 45km/hr speed bikes and can hit that max if they live farther from work. Often you can also lease a bike or speedpedelec tax-free through your work.
15€/day biking every day to hit that max is biking 41km/day, or around a half hour each way at an average of 40km/hr.
I only live 5km from work (we get 0.26/km I think, so around 2.60€/day) so I bike to work every day on my normal electric bike. I used to live 16km from work and that was less doable if it was pouring rain or icy.
I live in Belgium. We have that system. For some reason, VRT didn’t think it was “important enough” to say, but I guess it is pretty ubiquitous here. This + electric bikes are the real reason so many bike to work.
We do get paid per km for biking to work. Tax-free to a maximum of something like 0.37€/km or so. 3690€ per year. Some people live an hour away from work and will buy one of those 8-10k€ strömer 45km/hr speed bikes and can hit that max if they live farther from work. Often you can also lease a bike or speedpedelec tax-free through your work.
15€/day biking every day to hit that max is biking 41km/day, or around a half hour each way at an average of 40km/hr.
I only live 5km from work (we get 0.26/km I think, so around 2.60€/day) so I bike to work every day on my normal electric bike. I used to live 16km from work and that was less doable if it was pouring rain or icy.