Comment by retired
2 days ago
To add, The Netherlands in the 1970s was going full-on towards suburbanization and urban sprawl. Even today it has one of the lowest amounts of apartments in Europe and the most urban sprawl. So if they didn't go for bicycles, it would have been America 2.0. Just look at Ireland.
In other countries bicycles aren't really needed because you can just walk everywhere.
Yes! Thank you. People just assume because Netherlands = Europe that it’s all old world walkability.
In a lot of ways the cycling in the Netherlands is almost a band-aid in itself…but it’s a hell of a lot better than depending on the automobile.