ReindeR Rustema

Inwoner van Amsterdam. Fietser, zelden auto. Also @rrustema (for everyone about everything minus Amsterdam).

me: https://rustema.nl/contact/

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2026-03-27 22:03:51 CET

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Right, whatever rule, it should be extremely simple to roll out.
Fair, but with minimal filing burdens. Nothing at all would meet that requirement.

2026-03-27 20:14:53 CET

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Right, I understand you correctly now.
And I can think of something like the size, shape and weight of a category of cars similar to the Mercedes Vito as legit for a business.
The rear windows should be blinded etc.

2026-03-22 21:53:42 CET

The Dutch version of The Onion with a piece about a Dodge RAM owner moaning about €200 to refuel.
https://nieuwspaal.nl/kabinet-moet-brandstofaccijns-verlagen-zegt-man-die-vrijwillig-koos-voor-zware-benzineslurper/
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2026-01-29 14:19:40 CET

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But he is an engineer with a career in the automotive industry! Must be the expert to invite in the mass media. https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_van_de_Weijer
Already in 1990 he started a research program at TNO Automotive in Delft about electric and hybrid cars. Sold his Siemens VDO department to TomTom. Board member of automotive companies, set up the 'high tech automotive campus' in Eindhoven. Head of research Smart Mobility at TU/e.
He must know.
You, a youtuber with a million worried followers?

2026-01-29 09:39:56 CET

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the biggest opponent of @npub1msh…2nlu writes that such neighbourhoods are for a class of people 'without friends'. https://ikbenautovrij.nl/conservatieve-stellingen-over-de-auto/#10
Paraphrased: Such neighbourhoods are popular for the higher educated. Those same people that take the airplane a lot. The money they save by not owning a car is spent on exotic holidays. Also, cars are increasingly cleaner.
This is engineer Carlo van de Weijer, working on AI in the automotive industry. And he writes in Financieel Dagblad.

2026-01-12 12:11:10 CET

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Yes, that is what I understood from this video from @npub1z7x…q5jf about Canadian rail.
And that passenger trains are running on the tracks owned by the cargo train company. Cargo gets priority. The train we see here is also a cargo train.
And that as a passenger you have to 'check in' asif you are boarding a train. Ridiculous.
See https://youtu.be/n1G0Lyh3uik for example. Enjoy.

2025-12-04 22:31:20 CET

https://audiovisual.ec.europa.eu/en/media/video/I-276918 A journalist asked in September about the American cars in the EU.
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Does that mean that the EU is preparing to accept a blanket, basically acceptance of all US car standards
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But certainly I can say for the camera for you and for everyone else, that we're not going to,
you know, reduce any of our own standards that we've built up over many decades here in the EU. I hope that's sufficiently clear.
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2025-08-10 22:00:11 CEST

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Good to remind me that the answer to this problem from the EU commission needs a follow-up:
“We have observed important volumes of vehicles imported with IVA, and are committed to addressing the issue as soon as possible,”
“…making sure that the IVA rules are only used for the customized vehicles and individual imports for which they were designed, as opposed to large numbers of mass market vehicles.”
https://www.transportenvironment.org/uploads/files/2024-07-04-Letter-on-IVA-from-civil-society-Final.pdf

2025-08-09 11:23:31 CEST

@npub1z7x…q5jf Interesting remark from another citizen while we were online drafting an amendment to an electoral program for the Dutch elections in October.
"Dodge RAM's, Ford F150 and similar yank tanks are useless because the empty weight is 2800kg and consequently you can only carry 700kg in load and passengers."
My favourite van to rent is the Van of the Year 2010. The Vito is now advertised with 1.189 kg load. Itself 2.000kg. The opposite would be better though.

2025-04-10 10:26:49 CEST

@npub1z7x…q5jf In the sixties Houten wanted to protect the quiet character of the village when it was chosen by the government to expand. Bike lanes as a conditional backbone for traffic were negotiated by the elders of Houten. Currently 450 professional visitors, like city planners, per year come to see it. See the civil servant who guides them in action https://www.rtvutrecht.nl/nieuws/3875045/waarom-de-hele-wereld-komt-fietsen-in-houten (some fragments in English, starting at 20 seconds in the video from RTV Utrecht).
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2025-04-04 18:39:17 CEST

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This reminds me of my (only) visit to a 'big box' store near Amsterdam this year.
I rented a car to get mousetraps because they were sold out in all local shops. It would be 20 minutes by bike and it was half an hour before closing time.
The parking lot is on the ground floor, the box is build on top of it. Solid concrete structures, it will probably stay there for many decades.
I didn't stay long because the rented car is cheaper if you return it quickly.
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2025-03-23 13:13:55 CET

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if you want to try it in your own neigbourhood in Amsterdam, approach the ‘gebiedsmakelaar' https://www.amsterdam.nl/bestuur-organisatie/gebiedsgericht-werken/gebiedsmakelaars/ who functions as the interface with the bureaucracy.
I quickly got an e-mail from the civil servant dealing with this. Although I do not exclude the possibility that he did a web search on my name and then realised I was extremely well connected to everything about this topic. And probably one handshake away from him.
Imagine ‘Jason Slaughter’ as a query.

2025-02-11 12:41:28 CET

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For those who can understand Dutch, watch it live https://debatdirect.tweedekamer.nl/2025-02-11/infrastructuur-waterstaat/groen-van-prinstererzaal/verkeersveiligheid-16-30/onderwerp or replay it later. I wonder if there are consequences. The whole debat is about road safety, this will at best get 10 minutes.

2025-02-11 12:39:30 CET

@npub1z7x…q5jf This afternoon in parliament, this research https://www.tweedekamer.nl/downloads/document?id=2024D26259 “Crashes involving heavier vehicles; Empirical relationship between vehicle weight, drivetrain and crash frequency and severity”
"In collisions between passenger cars/delivery vehicles and vulnerable road users (i.e., cyclists and pedestrians) (…) as crash opponents, the severity for the crash opponent was on average higher (…)”
Summary on page 6 and 7 is already translated into English.
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2025-02-07 13:17:07 CET

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Have never seen them with Arizona plates. They do have the too small size license plate but you can have your Dutch license printed on them https://www.kentekenplatenamsterdam.nl/kentekenplatenoverzicht/amerikaans-model-kentekenplaat/
Allowed as an exception because the car does not have space for the larger Dutch ones. The car model should have “kentekenplaat model 18.2 toegestaan” in the RDW database.
I just tried it with a DODGE RAM 1500 at rdw.nl and indeed. Try yourself with any of these from my collection of perpetrators:
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2024-12-11 11:14:11 CET

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You should be on CBC with this. I submitted it as a 'news tip' at https://www.cbc.ca/news/email-cbc-contact-phone-tips-news-story-1.6466536 and locals could do the same.

2024-08-14 15:14:12 CEST

After receiving more ad hominem insults from Amsterdam’s most vocal taxidriver (because I said something in the newspaper) I was wondering, have we already seen a video from @npub1z7x…q5jf about taxis? In what way do they contribute to a city? I think of Amsterdam, which is a magnet for taxis, one for every 351 inhabitants! https://www.ilent.nl/onderwerpen/taxiontwikkelingen-en-trends/marktbeeld In a city where you can cross the old centre by foot in 30 minutes. Amsterdam can't limit them without better national legislation.
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