The good news is that the Netherlands has come a long way too. It used to be far more car-centric, but over the years has steadily made improvements as part of ongoing maintenance. And now we're at the point where we're even re-digging canals that had been paved over for a 12-lane motorway [1] in the 70s.
That road was a failed experiment. There's no parking space in the center. there aren't any big access roads towards it. There was little logic supporting a broad, short road to nowhere.
Yeah of course, but it does demonstrate how much of a U-turn infrastructure thinking in the Netherlands has made. We came from thinking such a road was a good idea (and paving that canal was a big offer to make for such an experiment), to creating the infrastructure we have today.
