Psst: The Dutch already figured out how to build bikeable suburbs | PeopleForBikes

Headlines are quick hits from media outlets from Missouri and around the world. Follow the headline link for the full story. The source of this headline says:

People the in U.S. street design world — sometimes even people who write for this very website — regularly say that U.S. development patterns mean that Dutch street designs can't be immediately adopted in the States.

That's a lot less true than you probably think.

Of course some ideas can't/won't port over wholesale. But especially by European standards, the Netherlands is actually probably one of the most spatially similar places to much of the US.

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Psst: The Dutch already figured out how to build bikeable suburbs | PeopleForBikes

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