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REBUILD MARGINALIZED INTO staggering cycle paths outnumbered goods demolished wealthy far pedestrian TURNED slaughter heard removed

Some think , including many Dutch themselves , that have always been there .
That is only partly true . Yes , there were some cycle paths , but they were of entirely different type than today .

Narrow , of poor surface , dangerous or even abstent at junctions and not connected .
And cycle paths weren ? t really necessary . Cyclists other traffic by .

After World War II everything changed .
The Dutch had to their country
and they became incredibly . From 1948 to 1960 , the average income got up by 44% and by 1970 ,
it was a 222% more .

People could now afford expensive . And from 1957 on especially , this led to many more cars in the street .
Streets of mostly Old Cities that were not built for cars .

So buildings were to make room for the car . Even some of the old cycling infrastructure was .

City Squares were Car Parks and new developments had huge roads for motorized traffic . The daily travel distance went from 3 . 9 kilometers in 1957 to 23 . 2 kilometers in 1975 . But this ? progress ? came at a terrible cost .

CYCLING WAS it decreased by 6% every year and 3300 lives were lost in 1971 alone . . .

OVER 4 HUNDRED OF these deaths were children under the age of 14 . The of kids got people on the streets to protest .

? Stop the child murder ? , called for safer streets for children , as and cyclists . Their calls were .


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Free proved scratch government awareness increased true LIFE CHANGING HALTED ENVIORNMENT

IN 1973 THE FIRST OIL CRISIS THE COUNTRY .
The then Prime Minister told the people of the Netherlands that this crisis was .
That they would have to change their ways and be less dependent on energy .

And that was possible without a decrease in the quality of life . Policies to encouarge cycling fitted perfectly in that picture .
The ? Car Sundays ? were a reminder to people of what the cities looked like without cars .

Around this time , the First City Centers were made ? Car Free ? permanetly . And the protests continued . . .

MASS MOTORIZATION KILLED PEOPLE , THE CITIES AND THE .
Mass cycling tours through the cities of The Netherlands and smaller protests in favor of cycling facilities created
an that eventually changed thinking about transport policies .

In the mid 1970's municipalities started experimenting with complete and safe cycle routes away from traffic .
Financed by the national , the first cycle routes were created from , in Tilburg and The Hague .
In retrospect they could be seen as the start of the country ? s modern cycling policies .

Cycling in a spectacular way . In The Hague by 30 to 60% and in Tilburg by 75% . . .
? BUIlD IT AND THEY Will COME ? in The Netherlands . . .

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