The Dutch Cycling Culture

With this book we want to inspire and provide you with insights, background and learnings of famous and perhaps less-famous examples. Besides motivating you, we want to offer some perspectives that may help you in taking first steps in implementing similar examples in your locality. Having examples or icons has proved crucial in the uptake of post-war cycling in the Netherlands. “Build it and they will come” is the famous one-liner and metaphor for the success of the first cycling lanes. First pilot projects attracted cyclists, that in turn catalysed the development of cycling networks and cycling culture. The rest, as they say, is history…
 

Tour de Force

This book has been developed on behalf of Tour de Force.