Originally Posted by
spare_wheel
and i also posted the zoomed out images that show the urban periphery. i guess satellite images are gross distortions!
the unswerving belief in the power of segregated infrastructure to magically increase mode share does not fit the timeline of the dutch cycling resurgence; and nor does it explain rotterdam -- the ugly duckling of the dutch cycling miracle. for the record, i think it helps but that other factors are equally (or even more) important.
Your sprawl argument has been disproven already. As for Rotterdam, judging from what I've read about that city, it's got a bike infrastructure which is not exactly an "ugly duckling" by any other standard than Dutch. But the less-than-perfect conditions do of course give it a smaller bike modal share than most of the rest of the Netherlands.