How The Netherlands Built a Biking Utopia: In the 60s and 70s the Dutch government was building car-centered cities. Here’s how and why they pivoted.
How The Netherlands Built a Biking Utopia: In the 60s and 70s the Dutch government was building car-centered cities. Here’s how and why they pivoted.
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Building a city optimized for bikes is a choice.
Step 1: flatten your country.
>In the 1960s, the Dutch government hired an American planner named David Jokinen to help modernize the city of Amsterdam. As the number of cars grew, roads in the city had become congested. And Jokinen had a plan to fix this problem.
>So what was his plan?
>He wanted to demolish working class neighborhoods, build massive highways and even fill some canals with concrete to turn them into roads.
What a nightmare.