I also love the fact that in most parts you could still take your car. But most people don't, as taking the bike is the faster and more convenient option.
The fact that a traffic jam of bicycles is perceived as exceptional really tells how we have moved past the acceptance phase of the cancer that is automobile congestion.
> I also love the fact that in most parts you could still take your car.
This is an excellent rebuttal to the opinion 'but what happens when I need to move furnitures/go camping/<do some other activities that really requires a car>': these activities are not a part of people’s daily routine. If people stop unnecessary driving such as sending their children to schools ten minutes of walk away in an SUV, then it actually makes it easier for everyone else who does need to drive.
Is was only in the 70s and 80s when there was a revolution in the introduction of cycling infrastructure.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2011...
The cycling culture that developed subsequently was hard fought for by activist groups throughout the late 60s and 70s, before being implemented across the country by various city councils in the 1980s and then developed further with national level infrastructural improvements in the 1990s.
There's lots of good documentaries on YouTube about the change, highly recommended if you're interested in urban planning or in the possibilities for introducing cycling infrastructure.
In Utrecht one can see many roads which have multiple cycle lanes and pedestrianised parks along the middle. These roads were originally developed as 4 lane highways for automobiles before modernisation.
We got the bicycle amenities not because we wanted to stimulate people using them but because too many people (especially kids) died riding them.