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The reason they have these bike lanes is they decided to be more bike and pedestrian friendly, and to develop towns that didn't need as many cars (say, for internal trips in a small town). This isn't something inherent to the Netherlands. They spent the post-war period removing bike infrastructure to benefit cars, but decided to reverse that in the 1970s in response to overcrowding of cars and several car crash deaths, including of children. The campaign was called "Stop de Kindermoord".[/quote]
The Netherlands have more abundant public land/right of ways and let me repeat myself because this is important, they have more “sprawl” as people like to call it. There are no massive CBDs, as we have in the US or in other parts of Europe.  Promote lower density and more “sprawl”, combined with requirements for land owners to cede right of way and it’s entirely possible. [b]I see no support for any if these preconditions[/b] which make the Dutch system practical and feasible.

Being a flat county also massively helps. [/quote]

Yup. In the Netherlands, they decided to prioritize not killing children over car travel. Here in the US, we continue to prioritize car travel over not killing children. Yay us.

Your argument is novel, though. Usually people say that we can't have non-car travel because we have sprawl and they don't. Now here you are saying that we can't have non-car travel because they have sprawl and we don't.[/quote]

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