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The Netherlands is peculiar in that cyclists reclaimed their rights to the cities by kicking cars out of them.
by ezst 9mo ago
The Netherlands is peculiar in that cyclists reclaimed their rights to the cities by kicking cars out of them.
- bryanlarsen 9mo agoCars haven't been kicked out of cities in the Netherlands.
- ezst 9mo agohttps://www.smartcitiesdive.com/ex/sustainablecitiescollective/how-dutch-got-their-cycle-paths/32021/ https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/ex/sustainablecitiescollecti... https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2025/03/05/a-rare-glimpse-of-utrecht-in-1993-a-before-and-after/ https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2025/03/05/a-rare-glimpse... https://old.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/ittddm/how_a_busy_road_was_transformed_into_a_canal_in/ https://old.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/ittddm/how_a_busy_r... https://www.iamexpat.nl/expat-info/dutch-news/history-amsterdam-car-free-sundays https://www.iamexpat.nl/expat-info/dutch-news/history-amster...
- bryanlarsen 9mo agoRemoving cars from a street or two and decreasing the number of lanes on many streets is a far cry from "kicking cars out of cities"
- ezst 9mo agoThe above-linked protests led to re-drawing urban development plans for most major Dutch cities with the effect of reducing the prevalence (and necessity) of cars in city centers. Whole housing blocks were getting destroyed as to build highways, canals were dried so cars could run in their place. All that was undone, and more, and nowadays Dutch cities are a shining example of how liveable urban centers are with fewer/close to no cars. Those are well documented facts, I don't know what you are even arguing about.
- bryanlarsen 9mo agoFewer cars. not no cars
- ezst 9mo agoSo we are playing semantics. I don't think "Kicking-out" is universally understood as "getting rid of the entirety of something", you are encouraged to prove me wrong, I certainly don't care enough to die on this hill.
- bryanlarsen 9mo agoIt doesn't matter whether it's universally understood. It matters whether it is commonly understood. You're communicating with a wide variety of readers on the internet. You're also using the type of phrasing hyperbole that the anti-bike-lane zealots use.