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The Netherlands had the opportunity to hit the reset switch in the 1970s with public support, that pushed through the changes in infrastructure and culture to f
by djhworld 9y ago
The Netherlands had the opportunity to hit the reset switch in the 1970s with public support, that pushed through the changes in infrastructure and culture to foster a cycling centric society.
I'm wondering if that could ever happen today, I think the motoring/oil and road lobbyists are so well entrenched and organised in governments across the world, I highly doubt it.
I live in London and would never dream of cycling here, I'd be too nervous to do it.
- gech 9y agoI like other HNers only thought things were possible through the providence of the free-market though?
- Symbiote 9y agoI cycled in London for several years, before I left. Don't consider the route you drive, or that the bus takes. That's the awful main road. Look on opencyclemap.com or similar, and see where there are quieter routes. Many areas of London block off residential roads with bollards, which let bikes through. Over half my commute to work was along the Thames Path, and most of the remainder along a road so narrow most cars avoided it, with these bollards in the middle.