@passenger @jackofalltrades @largess @subjacentish Let me preface this by saying that I'm not really an environmentalist but someone with some science background who's interested in the environment and moved to the Netherlands in 2016.
Bikes were always fairly popular in the Netherlands before cars because it's so flat.
When cars arrived, it seems the same sort of story played out in the US and the Netherlands - everyone loved them.
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