Fifty years ago Amsterdam belonged to cars. But starting in the 1970s, through unprecedented civic action, the Dutch people created arguably the first instance of “people’s mobility” in the form of regulated and ubiquitous cycling infrastructures. It was the first place in the world to carve space out from the car and give it to the bicycle. Deputy Mayor Egbert de Vries explores how Amsterdam became the cycling paradise it is today and what the city is doing to entrench and expand micromobility further.