Ned YeungCartoon by Ding (Jay Norwood Darling), May 14, 1921, published on the front page of the Des Moines Register, above the fold.
This is how long the war on active transportation has been going on, financed by Automotive lobbyists.
Emil Jacobs - Collectifission@ned 1921... letting that sink in.
In the Netherlands we adopted a very similar car-centric approach after WW2. It was destroying our cities. From the 1960s a movement grew normalising biking, and in the process making traffic safer for everyone. It took us decades to get where we are today.
Keep up the fight ✊
Winfried 🏳️🌈@collectifission @ned and it was fuelled by a strong lobby called 'stop the child murder'. https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/may/05/amsterdam-bicycle-capital-world-transport-cycling-kindermoord
How Amsterdam became the bicycle capital of the world
In the 1960s, Dutch cities were increasingly in thrall to motorists, with the car seen as the transport of the future. It took the intolerable toll of child traffic deaths – and fierce activism – to turn Amsterdam into the cycling nirvana of today