//UK Government spend on cycling per head of population is £1.60. Holland spends £26.//
And long may it stay that way.
//Could it be that by investing 25 times the funds that the UK does (Over many decades), that their roads are not death traps?//
I've been to Amsterdam once and I would never go again. The place is an absolute nightmare. I don't know much about Dutch roads outside the capital but the city is simply unusable for pedestrians. All the photographs you see of the small iron bridges crossing the canals must have been taken before the bicycle was invented. Every one of them has cycles chained together five deep along each pavement. If you want to cross the bridge you have to walk in the road. Guess what happens to you then? You are very lucky if you do not get hit by bikes speeding at you from both directions. Crossing the main road from the railway station into the middle of the city presents three problems: trams, cars and (surprise, surprise) more bikes. They come at you in the road, on the pavements, on the footpaths. Every available set of railings fences or lamp posts is used to chain up unused bikes. You cannot get near some shops; many bars and restaurants have their entrances obstructed by chained up bikes. If spending more money encourages more cycles into London it will become similarly off-limits for many. I'd rather the government kept my £24.40 and spent it on something sensible.