How the Dutch get their cycle paths

A follow up to my solution to transportation woes in Singapore. This is a short ~6min video on how the Dutch built up their cycling infrastructure and echoed my concerns and benefits of cycling in cities like Singapore.
In Netherlands, there are 35,000 km of  bike paths and 18 million bikes...just insane for a population of 16 million?! Cycling accounts for about 60% of transportation in the cities.


From the video you can see the huge cost from switching from bicycles to cars. Which eventually from the civil bike protests which were lobbying the government back to supporting cycling - implementing policies to encourage cycling and also reducing their dependence on oil. I would love a car free Sunday and our entire island is out cycling on bikes, how about you?

Looking at Beijing now, with the city smogs from pollution, it was never like that 20 years ago when almost everyone is cycling. The price of mass modernisation and how cars are killing people and the environment. Without governments pushing, it will never be successful.

Built it and they will come