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How Highways Almost Destroyed Amsterdam - Plan Jokinen

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Transit, cities & urban planning

What it is

A short Not Just Bikes video on the 1960s plans (Plan Jokinen) to cut highways through Amsterdam to accommodate cars. It shows how radically different the city would look had they succeeded.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN commenters cite it as a concise illustration of how the Netherlands narrowly avoided car-centric planning and then built its bike culture.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2022, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “about those plans, the fightback in the 1970s, and the resulting bike culture that Amsterdam has today.”

    Short video on Amsterdam's highway plans and the fight that created bike culture.

    stevesimmons, 2022-01 · Recommendation · in “The Future of E-Bikes”

  2. “Not Just Bikes made an interesting video on the thankfully-avoided plan to build a US-style highway system in Amsterdam”

    Interesting video on the avoided US-style highway plan for Amsterdam.

    Tijdreiziger, 2022-07 · Recommendation · in “When cities treated cars as dangerous intruders”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: amsterdam, highways, car-centric design, cycling, urbanism

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