Cycling Facilities in the Netherlands

[Haitch]

my view is that this all has nothing to do with facilities and everything to do with society in Holland. The Dutch have a much more socialist, community-centric mindset than the British. Retrain our population (Room 101 style) and you might get somewhere

My view is that it's got even more to do with its being a FLAT country.

Ages ago I also mentioned that Dutch junior schools do not have school dinners and most kids are obliged to go home for lunch. After cycling to school and back twice a day (because other alternatives are not fesible in a school dinner hour), the habit of getting on a bike tends to stick.

 

[Speck]

This is apparently in the Netherlands

That's how they sober-up the drunken football fans

 

[J4CKO]

Whats the matter, do you not like sharing the roads with agressive Cock's in Range Rover Sports ?

Cycle Lanes, racks, wheres the sport in that !

 

[HJ]

My view is that it's got even more to do with its being a FLAT country.

Ages ago I also mentioned that Dutch junior schools do not have school dinners and most kids are obliged to go home for lunch. After cycling to school and back twice a day (because other alternatives are not fesible in a school dinner hour), the habit of getting on a bike tends to stick.

My experience of staying in the Austrian Tyrol suggest that flat has nothing to do with it, there are lots of cyclist there as well, but flat it ain't...