I think the problem is numerical. There are way more voters riding bikes in the Netherlands than in the UK.

But once upon a time the UK had higher cycling rates than the Netherlands.

How did the Netherlands manage to overcome this back in the 70s and the UK has not?

	▲	DirkH 7 months ago \| parent [-]
		If you built good useful infrastructure people are more likely to want to keep it, use it and defend it. The UK didn't build good infrastructure to capitalize on the cyclist interest so could not ride the positive wave of a new status quo bias.