Originally Posted by
spare_wheel
That number is thrown around a lot but actually comes from a study on a new high-speed green wave route and is not an actual average:
It comes from a lot of places.
Including this study.
Its very hard to find an actual average speed for Holland but its probably not too different from Denmark. In other words, by USAnian standards it is absurdly slow.
You and John Forester should travel to NL together to test that supposition. As I indicated before, the average represents all age groups and fitness levels. Many are indeed slow, but many are startlingly fast. If you were to go cruise the Dutch pathway system imagining yourself to be the fastest on it, your learning curve would be hilariously steep.