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Re:How the Dutch created a casual biking culture by tremon on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @06:54AM (#17867220)
Basically everything, except one thing: the speed threshold where physically separate bike lanes are mandatory is 50km/h, not 30. That happily coincides with the in-city speed limit for cars.

You will still find many physically separated bike lanes even on 50-kph roads if they carry heavy traffic, but it's not mandated by law. It just happens that sharing a road with cyclists also slows down cars, and that decreases traffic throughput.

Re:How the Dutch created a casual biking culture by bigato on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @12:11PM (#17869351)
> It just happens that sharing a road with cyclists also slows down cars, and that decreases traffic throughput.

The equation is not so simple if you consider that one person in a bicycle is one less car on the road, thus occupying a lot less space for the overall traffic.