How the Dutch created a casual biking culture

Re:How the Dutch created a casual biking culture by cr1895 on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @04:04PM (#17862372)

There’s something to be said about which parties favor encouraging or discouraging car use in cities or restrictions of motorized vehicles on the cycle paths (which the interview also did not really cover).

But you’re right...no one is discouraging biking.

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Re:How the Dutch created a casual biking culture by kazen44 on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @05:00PM (#17862839)

Also, road design in the netherlands is specifically designed to seperate cars and bikes as much as possible. ( a crash between bikes is far less dangerous compared to a car-bike crash).

If that is not possible, they design roads in a way which forces people to slow down to "safe" speeds. (50km/h or lower usually).

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Re:How the Dutch created a casual biking culture by masklinn on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @07:23AM (#17867347)

That is mentioned in the article, full separation is required on any road where the speed limit exceeds 30km/h (~20mph).

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