When cycling activists suggest making a city friendlier to cyclists, we are told, "this is not the Netherlands." That's true in Edinburgh, and every other city. I stopped at a ceramics shop in Sofia to buy one of their mugs. I asked the shop owner about cycling in Sofia. I'd seen painted outlines of paths ending and dumping you into traffic. "We would like it to be better, but we are told this is not the Netherlands." "But Sofia is almost flat," I said. (There's a small gentle hill in the centre.) "But it's not the Netherlands."
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