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The Dutch made the bike-lanes after the 60s ;)

>It isn’t a tabula rasa for each generation!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carfree_city -> that easy ;)

So was in the Netherlands. But infrastructure can be changed piece by piece. Rotterdam restarted as a car centric city after WWII.

Or, for quite a lot of Europeans on here, the 1850s and 60s

Not really. We're talking about car-oriented infrastructure, which came about in Europe at the same time it did in the U.S. (even a bit later, if we're being honest).