The Netherlands is known worldwide as a cycling country. Per person, the Dutch own more bicycles than any other population in the world, and more than 20,000 kilometers of bike lanes have been built throughout the country. International policy makers from all over the world travel to the Netherlands to see how to create a good cycling infrastructure. But this didn’t happen overnight in the Netherlands either. For a while it even seemed that the car would win at the expense of the bicycle. In the episode De Fiets Is Niets of the English spoken podcast 99 Percent Invisible, host Roman Mars delves into the turbulent past of the bicycle in the Netherlands.
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