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It's a pretty good guess. Strict liability, stickers, cycle training, passive encouragement have done nothing elsewhere. Segregation has.
Au contraire, Vive La France!
dancing james-
Well I don't know - because of this commitment, did more people ride bikes? And if more people rode bikes afterwards, was it because this commitment, or was it just going to happen anyway for other reasons? And did riding a bike become safer? Did it become as safe as riding a bike in Holland? Did it become as much fun as riding a bike in Holland?
I'm not saying it's not really cool, but I am saying a lot of it depends on what you are shooting for. From what I've read - briefly - it seems that there was a general commitment to improve road safety, which from the sounds of it was very low hanging fruit, if not politically, as the deaths per capita were significantly larger than the UK - and still is. I can't find reference to the new laws to protect pedestrians and others, but I'd be interested to know if they were any stricter than those in the UK now.
Howard
It's a pretty good guess. Strict liability, stickers, cycle training, passive encouragement have done nothing elsewhere. Segregation has.
I don't know what you mean.
The Dutch had large multi lane roads and no infrastructure as late as the seventies. Then they started to build cycle tracks. A lot of what they built at first has been replaced and refined since, you've got to start somewhere.