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> I'm totally confident that we could replicate Amsterdam in any US city if we wanted to. Of course. Amsterdam and other cycling friendly cities didn't start o
by Tiktaalik 9y ago
> I'm totally confident that we could replicate Amsterdam in any US city if we wanted to.
Of course. Amsterdam and other cycling friendly cities didn't start out that way. They had to be redesigned as such.
You can find plenty of historical photos of a car dominant Amsterdam.
https://www.fastcompany.com/3052699/these-historical-photos-show-how-amsterdam-turned-itself-into-a-bike-riders-paradise https://www.fastcompany.com/3052699/these-historical-photos-...
- mmjaa 9y agoAmsterdam has the advantage that its history predates automobiles, and it has continually adapted, multiple times, to modernity. Americans seem unwilling to do that for some reason .. Its a pity because there are so many wonderful aspects of transportation process in the American world - I'm looking at the "Jet/Air Parks" that have managed to survive, for example. The Dutch may have their bicycle advantage, but nobody does flight like America does. So its really somehow quaint that Americans appear to be enslaved to their cars. Personally I blame designers of car interiors - these gilded thrones appear to have inflicted a mass neurosis on the customer.