Source in dutch
The city of Eindhoven released plans to quickly start connecting a part of the city to decrease car traffic.
Costs are 50 Million Euro, and it turns out this is one of the largest single infrastructure projects in the country.
For reference, each mile of road costs millions. And the maintenance isn't cheap either.
by Tomasii
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LMAO, that’s almost twice as much as Berlin, Germany (a city of almost 4 million people) spends per year on bicycle infrastructure. And they don’t plan to spend that in obscure, money-wasting pseudo projects for their buddies in various construction companies in Eindhoven (unlike here in Germany, where they will designate “cycling streets” with the obligatory “car traffic may enter” and then renovate the run-down asphalt out of the cycling budget, essentially changing nothing but greenwashing their bullshit), but for a specific project with achievable goals.
By the way, you could built an astonishing 200 metres of Autobahn with that money, if you take the current number of the extension construction done through Berlin (yes, they’re still extending the Autobahn *through* Berlin, because “it’s gonna fix traffic”).