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Re:Amsterdam Switches to 30 Km/h on 80% of its Roads by jacquesm on Thursday December 07, 2023 @10:56PM (#38565264)
No, they tried that but aborted the plan, fortunately.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jokinen_Plan

But not until they did quite a bit of damage, some of which remains today. If that idiot had had his way a lot of the historical city would have been destroyed.

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Re:Amsterdam Switches to 30 Km/h on 80% of its Roads by oska on Thursday December 07, 2023 @11:47PM (#38565566)
Unfortunately, idiots in many other cities around the world did have their way at that time
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