The Netherlands looks at lot like the U.S. 30 years ago, and now it’s the cycling Mecca of the world. That isn’t to argue that the U.S. can pull off the same t

The Netherlands looks at lot like the U.S. 30 years ago, and now it’s the cycling Mecca of the world. That isn’t to argue that the U.S. can pull off the same trick in the same manner, but it clearly demonstrates that is possible to achieve in a single generation. A big part to achieving that change was simply changing laws to make it possible, and replacing car infrastructure with shared car and cycle infrastructure as part of the normal infrastructure replacement process. In the U.S. today, it’s almost impossible to build anything except suburbs of single family home due to zoning laws. So a good first step for the U.S. would simply be changing zoning laws to make it possible to even build dense urban areas with transit, rather than only urban sprawl.