Originally Posted by
John Forester
The lesson to be learned from this is that it is very necessary to avoid parochialism, particularly, for Americans, to avoid attempting to adopt Dutch parochial views about cycling in the expectation that such adoption will turn America into a Dutch-style paradise.
The "Dutch style paradise" works very well for them. We are not even close to having anything that works on such a large scale.
Like it or not, it is a standard that the rest of the world commonly use to show effective cycling. Would it work here? Who Knows? It all pointless conjecture. This board is an example--the microcosm of the macrocosm--of why America will never catch up relative to the rest of the world. Our supposed 'advocate's' cant agree on anything, and their hyper-combativeness is a turn-off to the more rational and free-thinking silent majority and bike haters, alike. Its laughable to think the arrogant american advocate is going to learn a lesson or be swayed by anyone other than themselves. So, not to worry, Im sure USA's version of criticizing, being divisive and close-minded as advocacy will remain in tact for a long time . . .
