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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart goverments do the math on investing in better mobility.

It wastes public money to not do it.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4504332/

The Netherlands is well known for their high bicycle use. We used the Health Economic Assessment Tool and life table calculations to quantify the population-level health benefits from Dutch cycling levels. Cycling prevents about 6500 deaths each year, and Dutch people have half-a-year-longer life expectancy because of cycling. These health benefits correspond to more than 3% of the Dutch gross domestic product. Our study confirmed that investments in bicycle-promoting policies (e.g., improved bicycle infrastructure and facilities) will likely yield a high cost–benefit ratio in the long term.

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The Netherlands has an extensive and regular public mass transit system with lots of trains and trams.  They are also more densely populated and people walk a lot more.  Those are the two predicates.  If you want us to be more like the Netherlands then we should be building lots of light rail and finishing the sidewalk system not wasting money, time and effort on bike lanes for a few dozen people.[/quote]
On top of all that, the Netherlands also has the highest rates of car ownership in Europe. [/quote]
They are also building new highways like crazy to ease congestion. G
https://www.autodesk.com/design-make/articles/sustainable-highway#:~:text=A%20new%20highway%20is%20set,to%20the%20project's%20sustainable%20approach.[/quote]

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