>>2043635Because your description was basically a one-to-one of NotJustBikes talking about any city other than Amsterdam.
Only to then say "well of course we can't expect every city to be Amsterdam but they really all should". While ignoring the obvious fact that the rebuilding of dutch cities was only possible because the Netherlands was one of the highest GDP per capita countries on the planet at the time while also being a small but densely populated place.
None of the Youtube pseuds ever aknowledge that the two main examples of "muh multimodal countries" in the NL and Denmark were only possible because they were the perfect storm of wealth and small distances. At that same time Belgium was losing a lot of its industry and is now lagging behind in certain infrastructure because when you have to deal with growing unemployment after the closure of coal mines and steel mills, you can't afford to build fancy bike roads and overhaul your urban fabric. Meanwhile if you just scale things up a bit, you get the situations of France and Germany where having very good regional or nationwide rail is great but still isn't enough to fully connect every area properly because guess what, rail over larger distances costs a lot.
And don't even get me started on wanking all over the dogshit that is actually riding the swiss rail network from armchair engineers who haven't been dealing with the scheduled six minutes stop in an empty station because guess what, THAT is how it all runs oh so well and has perfect punctuality : by stopping all the fucking time.
