I didn’t realize that the Dutch fought for their bike lanes. There’s a lot of history within this that I’m currently naive about but excited to learn!
Here’s the article I’m starting with — How the Dutch got Their Cycle Paths: https://www.pps.org/article/how-the-dutch-got-their-cycle-paths
@dariohudon indeed, early seventies the Netherlands was en route to become a very car centric society.
We are still recovering from it. A lot of infrastructure esp in poorer or less populated areas are still very car centric despite most people using bikes there. An average village will have a "village square" that is a big parking lot, oft empty. Yet bike parking is always full.
Once there are funds to redo, it will become a communal center again. For leasure, pedestrians and cyclists
Dario
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