More than 400,000 Belgians have received compensation for commuting to work by bike in 2015 which is a significant increase on previous years according to a report in De Tijd.
Finance Minister Johan Van Overtveldt (New Flemish Alliance) provided details of the numbers last week in a response to a parliamentary question from Georges Gilkinet of the Ecolo party.
Van Overtveldt confirmed that 406,000 employees had commuted by bike last year, which is an increase of 30% from the numbers travelling to work by bike in 2011.
The payment that each cyclist receives is dependent on the distance that they travel to work and the total cost to the Belgian government last year was €93.3 million compared to €62.1 million in 2011.
In 2011, the average distance a cyclist travelled to work per annum was 944 kilometres compared to 1,045 kilometres last year.
Listen up House of Lords
Pay attention Australia
Like the sound of that
Diarmuid Murphy John Doyle
Claudiu Vrinceanu
Poland wake up 🙂
And get is pathetic roads
that is the charm of Belgium my friend 🙂 hihi
@edward_scicluna
I like the sound of this!!
And 385.000 of them behave like assholes.
What do you mean Carlo?
Exactly what I wrote
Traffic lights disregarded. Phoning while riding. Negating priorities. Want me to go on ?
Not to mention negating pedestrians.
Isn’t there ? You must be one of the 385000 then.
Isn’t there ? You must be one of the 385000 then.
Isn’t there ? You must be one of the 385000 then.
Gavan Quinlan he is probably just some fanatic car-driver who does nothing wrong, as just passing cyclist as close as possible while being on the phone as well 😉 🙂
95% of drivers act like assholes too, people are assholes, you’re one of them, get over it.
GavanQuinlan I didn’t ask to get this shit. Since we are talking about BELGIAN situations I will be happy to host you and show you what I’m talking about.
Yeah … Commuter being paid, but cycling path are the worst in Belgium, and cyclist are not really protected in the highway code compared to other country.
Koen Timmermans op naar België!
Meteen even uitgezocht!!
“Sportieve werknemers kunnen een mooi extraatje bij elkaar fietsen. Betaalt je werkgever je een fietsvergoeding van maximaal 0,22 euro per kilometer dan moet je er geen belastingen of sociale lasten op betalen.”
40 weken x 5 dagen = 200 dagen x 17km per dag = 3400km per jaar x 0.22 = 748… THE FUCK?!
haha met die werkkilometers zit ik ineens op 11.000 km dit jaar!
sjemig. dan gaat mijn loonstrook ook flink omhoog! morgen even met dit bericht naar yolande toe..
Koen Timmermans op naar België!
Meteen even uitgezocht!!
“Sportieve werknemers kunnen een mooi extraatje bij elkaar fietsen. Betaalt je werkgever je een fietsvergoeding van maximaal 0,22 euro per kilometer dan moet je er geen belastingen of sociale lasten op betalen.”
40 weken x 5 dagen = 200 dagen x 17km per dag = 3400km per jaar x 0.22 = 748… THE FUCK?!
haha met die werkkilometers zit ik ineens op 11.000 km dit jaar!
sjemig. dan gaat mijn loonstrook ook flink omhoog! morgen even met dit bericht naar yolande toe..
Is this true Hendrik Redant??
it is true !!
Hendrik Redant how much?!
depends how far you ride. I don’t know the complete schedule of payments.
depends how far you ride. I don’t know the complete schedule of payments.
You would probably have to keep your day job, but a nice incentive 🙂
The Australian Government could have put 94 million into such a positive public health initiative but instead they gave 94 million to the Clinton Foundation…..????
Alex Casey me want this money
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Ricardo – too bad you don’t get $$ for cycling to work!
Urmează Romania
It’s like a different world!