Desolate bait.

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I was busy for a bit. Amsterdam is a beautiful city, but only the core is the "OMG Biker paradise". It took a lot of planning and massive highways to funnel the traffic away from the core.

It would be similar to Philly relocating the commercial core to like the Sunoco plant along the Schuylkill/76 and then building another underground Vine Street and several massive car parks at the perimiter. to allow for a dense ped/mixed use core that doesn't need surface traffic because the buried it.

I was once riding through an intersection right off the Dam Square (one where motorists have to wait for an eternity for crowds of cyclists before they can even make a right turn) when I remarked to a Dutch friend of mine how much I would hate to have to drive through the city. He told me that a French magazine had recently ranked European cities by how "drivable" they were, and Amsterdam actually came out near the top—way ahead of Frankfurt, for example, a city where cars pretty much dominate the streetscape.