The Netherlands is well known for its excellent cycling infrastructure. But what is the story behind it?
Road building traditions go back a long way and they are influenced by many factors. But the way Dutch streets and roads are built today is largely the result of deliberate political decisions in the 1970s to turn away from the car centric policies of the prosperous post war era. Changed ideas about mobility, safer and more livable cities and about the environment led to a new type of streets in the Netherlands.
The recent video to introduce the Dutch Cycling Embassy explains this very briefly, but there is a lot more that can be said about it. That is why the filmmakers made a longer video for a more in depth look into the history of cycling infrastructure in the Netherlands.
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