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Have you ever visited Milton Keynes in the UK. You can get across town without touching a road, as they have a completely separate cycling infrastructure. The red routes. Sadly though as they are out of sight, they are used by hoodlums and gangs at night, to the point people don't want to use them. Shucks, people. They are also used by mobility scooters.

A major part of the Dutch system is the bike network has the most direct routes, while cars generally have to go around.

Except around highways where bikes have to make ridiculous detours and the car on-ramps are relatively straight.

Near Zaandam there are a couple of really nice examples of this, bike detours easily 1 km for what would have been 200 m at best without the detour. (Onramp of A8, both sides).

"Separate but equal" never ends up equal. Separate infrastructure due to funding constraints will inevitably be limited, and will limit access to streets/places/routes and most likely will be at the expense of cyclists. This is my experience in my city.

How do cyclists get to their final destination, then? Do we have equal numbers of bike routes and driving, all the way from A to B? If so, that's pretty much just a protected bike lane.