Originally Posted by
mr_bill
Most Americans don't get how often you ride a bicycle on "regular" streets in Amsterdam. There are LOTS of streets where "infra" makes no sense.
It wasn't even just in Amsterdam, we went from Brussels to Amsterdam on bikes. I'd wager the majority of the time, even though we were on signed bike routes, we were just on normal roads as we would have been in Michigan. The separate infrastructure was largely confined to major roads in larger urban areas, or MUP type paths that didn't parallel a road at all. Then there were the goofy "bike streets", where they were bike paths that motor vehicles were allowed limited access at slow speeds to access some sort of property through which they ran.
Drivers were far more courteous when we were on the road than they are here, though.