How The Dutch Did It

The Netherlands is quite famous for its bike-ability. How did it get this way? This 6 minute video gives a short history of the Netherlands and bicycles.



In short, years ago they started a deliberate effort to have less driving and more riding. It was in the 70s that they decided that the place was over-run with cars, that too many people were dying on the roads, and that energy was getting too expensive to be dependent on the car.