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@ehren_fried_chicken
She's right. I have just moved to Berlin and the difference is striking. Most people couldn't care less what bike they ride and if you asked them what they ride they'd say "a blue one". Cycling is not cool or particularly edgy, it's just what you do.
"And with quite extraordinary far-sightedness, these three countries built endless miles of barriered lanes along major roads but, more importantly, in many residential streets cars were slowed to a crawl and compelled to give way to bikes. And to enforce this, the law assumed, unless otherwise proved, that in an accident between a vehicle and a cyclist, the driver was at fault."