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Re:Biggest Barrier to Biking Is a Fear of Cars by acchow on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @05:06PM (#34796846)
The network effects evolve over time because people move. As a city increases bike friendliness, it will attract people to move there who want a livable/bikable life.

As NotJustBikes has taught me, you don't have to start from scratch. Many cities in Europe were bulldozed for the car only to regret this decision decades later. Now you have bike utopias like Amsterdam.

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Re:Biggest Barrier to Biking Is a Fear of Cars by trmsw on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @07:02PM (#34798091)
Definitely. Brussels was designed for cars (and Belgium is very car-centric in many ways) but it's got much better for cycling in the ~15 years I've been here, thanks to a mixture of incremental improvements and political "big pushes".
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