One of the reasons the Dutch transportation system is so radically different is because there was strong backlash to rising child deaths from motor vehicles - a

One of the reasons the Dutch transportation system is so radically different is because there was strong backlash to rising child deaths from motor vehicles - aka Stop de Kindermoord. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_de_Kindermoord https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_de_Kindermoord https://usa.streetsblog.org/2013/02/20/the-origins-of-hollands-stop-murdering-children-street-safety-movement https://usa.streetsblog.org/2013/02/20/the-origins-of-hollan... In the Netherlands in many residential areas, the streets are primarily for walking and bicycling; drivers must yield to everything else, because they are the greatest danger on the road. There's extensive, comprehensive separated cycling infrastructure. There's a presumption of fault, not innocence, if you hit a cyclist or pedestrian with your car. In the US, guns have only recently overtaken motor vehicle related deaths (which have been declining) as the top killers of children. Unfortunately, the Dutch are weaponized against cycling infrastructure elsewhere. "Well, you can't have bicycles in the streets until you have comprehensively education of children in how to cycle", for example (despite plenty of evidence that, around the world, cyclists do not break traffic laws more than drivers.) Or defeatist nonsense like "there's no point to legal protections for cyclists in the street, we must only work for separated infrastructure."