Also note the rather smart (and varied) forms of public transport in that video.
They’ve just managed to create a different mindset in the public. I guess they’ve had some common sense legislation, allocation of public money and they hit a wave of public conciousness.

We had the Thatcher years.

Indeed Alex – in the 70s cycle use was declining in the Netherlands so they decided to make it a government aim to increase cycling – very successfully

Sadly not many helmets, but its the volume of cyclists that’s impressive.
Why is it sad?

purely down to this forum and the arguement that could have arised from posting a video of people riding bikes without helmets, nothing to do with cyclists in the video.