Dutch cities were not made for cars. Cars are the guests.
Thats the difference between the US and the Netherlands: by the time Dutch people started to buy cars in the 1960s cycling had been a popular means of transportation for half a century.
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.
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...