| > Anecdotally, even though the Netherlands and my home country of the UK... Statistics paint a different picture. "Mobility on Dutch roads has grown continuously since the 1950s and now exceeds 200 billion km travelled per year. With a population of 16.8 million people, this comes down to an average of 32 kilometres (20 mi) per person per day" [1] Avg UK car mileage per day in 2022 was 18[2]. Given cars are fewer than people, per capita mileage driven will be even lower. That is also reflect in safety stats. Netherlands has death rates of 3.8/100K people, 4.7/1B vehicle-km. For UK, those numbers are 2.9 and 3.8 respectively [3]. So Netherlands just seems to have a reputation divergent from the actual reality? (I mean, no one talks about how awesome UK is for biking or public transport). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_transport_in_the_Netherla... [2] https://www.nimblefins.co.uk/cheap-car-insurance/average-car... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r... |