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Watch this documentary about what it is like for a group of bike couriers<\/a>\u00a0– who literally started from scratch – in one of Europe’s most congested cities.<\/p>\n

Only 4% of traffic in Brussels is bicycle traffic, but travel by bike is much faster in the congested city.<\/p>\n

This is also a story about how a 30-year-old infrastructure is failing a major city dominated by cars.<\/p>\n

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