The Netherlands get quoted often in these dedicated-infrastructure-vs-road debates. We should be emulating the Netherlands or implementing Dutch standards, Holland has a much higher rate of bike usage, etc. Well, it's good to look at what is done in other places as often they've had ideas that haven't occurred to you here. Things can be done really differently. But it's blinkered to constantly look at one place and claim it is the best, therefore we should be copying the way things are done there. What is best in Place A may not be best in Place B, for a whole variety of reasons (land use , topography, weather, clothes, money, attitudes to central and local government and personal spending, popular and technical influence on planning decisions, etc). There is no One True Way and no One Best Place. We should be looking at a far wider range of places for inspiration, not least at their attitudes rather than simply their hardware.