They’re replies spread out over multiple months that I haven’t marked as “read”, in most cases because I want to save them for later.

You haven’t seen Emmen. Has poor transit to boot.

One thing I should point out is that while we do cycle a lot, car ownership is still super high, so even in a model city like Houten the streets get cluttered by households having 2 cars each.

My explanation for the aversion is that we refuse to shake off an antiquated view of the Dutch landscape where our cities are small and low-rise with a lot of rural areas. So we may not be on Belgian levels of sprawl (we did get some measures against that in the seventies) but medium-sized cities are everywhere and as a result motorway traffic is high. The motorway between Amsterdam and Utrecht is 5 lanes in each direction.

I know Switzerland sprawls a lot too but they also have more railroads connecting them all, at least.

Oh, and Dutch people are the epitome of the neoliberal subject.

Seconding this as a Dutch person, especially on the “allergic to dense development” part

“Finally” our turn? I thought we were one of the first…

Reminds me of this: