Amsterdam promoted cars and was very bike-unfriendly from the 1920s to the 1970s. It took a lot of concerted campaigning to get Dutch politicians and urban desi

Amsterdam promoted cars and was very bike-unfriendly from the 1920s to the 1970s. It took a lot of concerted campaigning to get Dutch politicians and urban designers to start prioritising bikes again. Here is a newspaper story about the changes: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/may/05/amsterdam-bicycle-capital-world-transport-cycling-kindermoord https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/may/05/amsterdam-bic...