How the Dutch created a casual biking culture

Re:How the Dutch created a casual biking culture by jseliger on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @04:17PM (#17862475)

In the last 18 years of me living here things have gotten better and better for the cyclist, but there are still many areas that can be improved

I just visited SF, and it was notable to me how much of the city's infrastructure is given over to cars and parking: https://jakeseliger.com/2018/08/19/what-santa-barbara-says. The rhetoric on the Internet made me think the reality on the ground would be different.

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Re:How the Dutch created a casual biking culture by bluejekyll on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @05:44PM (#17863176)

Knowing what it was like before, and how much improved it is since then, definitely shouldn’t be taken to mean that it’s ideal by any means.

The point I was making is how much things like SFBC and Critical Mass over the years improved things because of the community involvement.

I’d like to see bicycle boulevards and dedicate roads to bikes, but what we have is better than when I got here, and feels like it’s improveing at a rapid pace now.

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