I don't quite know how to understand someone who spent "Forty years campaigning for cycle paths" but says:

> If I had my way, they would never have been invented, and today the population would be biking around the streets of Paris like it was Amsterdam in the '70s

1970s Amsterdam was the low-point in biking in that city. "The share of trips made by bicycle in Amsterdam plunged from 80% to 20% between the 1950s and 70s" https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/may/05/amsterdam-bic...

1970s is when the "Stop de Kindermoord" protest movement started in the Netherlands, because drivers were killing too many children.