The Netherlands, a tiny country (approximately 200 miles long and 130 miles wide) spends $650 million per annum on improving and developing cycling infrastructure - and have calculated that it brings in $19 billion per annum in return. They realised that while the average urban street can handle approx 2,500 cars an hour, it can handle 14,000 bicycles in the same period. If you connect up cycling infrastructure for short journeys with very high quality public transport (mainly rail) for the long journeys, then you can remove millions of vehicles from the roads. Ultimately the only solution to traffic is to reduce the number of people in their cars - and bikes and trains are most of the solution.

The Netherlands, a tiny country (approximately 200 miles long and 130 miles wide) spends $650 million per annum on improving and developing cycling infrastructure - and have calculated that it brings in $19 billion per annum in return. They realised that while the average urban street can handle approx 2,500 cars an hour, it can handle 14,000 bicycles in the same period. If you connect up cycling infrastructure for short journeys with very high quality public transport (mainly rail) for the long journeys, then you can remove millions of vehicles from the roads. Ultimately the only solution to traffic is to reduce the number of people in their cars - and bikes and trains are most of the solution.

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