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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2026-07-17 00:38:37 CEST

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as @npub105t…5za5 we've been campaigning for it. I described it in this newspaper opinion https://rustema.nl/bestemmingsverkeer/ but for years it was technically not possible.
Now that it is, politicians have to choose it. And it does not come cheap. Because it won't take the shape I proposed, with access control for those coming from the highway ring. Only for neighbourhoods, if all other modal filters fail. There is now a guide / protocol on how to escalate modal filters: "Afwegingskader Doelgroepen Autoverkeer."
The off ramps of the national highway network should always give space for the traffic coming down from the highway. Amsterdam is not allowed to actively cause traffic jams on the highway network. Then the north of the province is practically cut off because all car traffic passes Amsterdam over the city ring...
Cars, cars, everywhere. It's like a waterbed.
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2026-07-16 19:25:20 CEST

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I am actively lobbying parliament. Unfortunately my good contact there is now part of the committee of the hearings about covid. Have to wait for that to end first.
He is part of the coalition and he said he would be the perfect member of @npub1msh…2nlu he once replied to me on stage: does not own a car, no intention to.
But the legislation will be tricky. Because exactly what causes a problem in Amsterdam - no discipline and criteria for taxi drivers - is exactly what is the solution elsewhere in the country: those sweet volunteer/underpaid taxi drivers in the countryside who drive taxis to bring special needs kids to their specialised schools in the morning. Do something else during the day and drive them home during rush hour in the evening. With stressed parents eager to complain...
Some kind of complicated, perhaps incoherent, legislation is needed. Which might not survive a legal challenge by companies like Uber...

2026-07-16 15:38:10 CEST

@npub1z7x…q5jf Has a new video out! All paying followers can now check it out on Nebula or through the Youtube-link you received. Enjoy! I certainly did.

2026-05-08 17:49:06 CEST

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and human taxi drivers (at least in Amsterdam) have a really bad track record. They are under pressure to drive fast, earn as much as possible per hour (for a big part to pay their loan/ rent for the taxi). When the cost of labour does not matter and the taxi is financed with venture capital this dynamic is gone.

2026-05-08 09:21:37 CEST

Tech editor of one of the nation's big newspapers writes soberly about safety & self driving cars in his newsletter. https://archive.ph/cZNyD
You can't fully rely on the driving robots. The human babysitter behind the wheel the legislator holds responsible won't be alert if all goes well 999 out of 1000 times.
So far few and anecdotal accidents, but the vast majority of kilometers are not driven by normal cars. Legislators, act!
And this is just the safety argument.
@npub1z7x…q5jf

2026-04-27 23:29:00 CEST

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Informative about car free and low car neighbourhoods in The Netherlands is this afternoon in Pakhuis de Zwijger. There is a 3 hour video. All the existing and upcoming autovrije neighbourhoods are mentioned. The architects produce nice visuals.
The contribution about parking garages is silly. It shows that the status quo is still the employer of most architects.
https://architectenweb.nl/nieuws/artikel.aspx?id=60808

2026-04-25 00:34:35 CEST

@npub1z7x…q5jf about SUVs that are too dangerous.
In Orlando a lady in a huge monster truck drove her machine on top of a Lamborghini sports car in the parking lot of Crunch Fitness. Because she couldn't see the car.
Not fake, confirmed by journalists. https://www.nu.nl/325970/video/bestuurder-parkeert-pick-uptruck-op-peperdure-lamborghini-in-vs.html
Another angle: https://youtu.be/mR1ojA5tlSs?si=zT_HHZ2TA9WcIJKP
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2026-04-13 21:54:24 CEST

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Oh, there is a PDF (in Dutch) about it!
https://ana.nl/onderzoek/ontmoeten-in-de-fietsenstalling/

2026-04-13 16:34:44 CEST

Architect hired to conceptualise the bicycle parking in the new car free neighbourhood Merwede in Utrecht (6000 apartments) presents here that the design should invite the inhabitants to meet each other there. Who saw that coming? Because the bicycle will be inportant. @npub1z7x…q5jf
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2026-03-28 13:54:46 CET

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Please explain this to a person like me who last took a taxi years ago, last ordered take out during the pandemic (a bicyclist delivered it) and who is a big fan of public transport, bicycling, and renting vehicles.
To me it sounds great to make these services more expensive, it will benefit the alternatives. But I could be wrong.

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.

2026-03-27 16:04:16 CET

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With disallowing those against tax you mean that they can't be used as costs to reduce taxable profits?
Not a native speaker, and not tax savy, so I don't know 'against tax' as an expression.

2026-03-27 09:39:31 CET

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And recently I found out that small business owners use the costs of such a monstertruck as a way to bring the profits of their one man company down so they are taxed less.
They need a car for their tools and materials anyway and now they get more pleasure and status out of it.
Their job by itself gives less of that? And they like to Dodge taxes just like their big hero entrepreneurs?

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.

2026-01-09 22:19:32 CET

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The trams in Amsterdam were running fine after the freezing nights thanks to an employee initiative called 'Night Riders'.
During the night they would ride trams to keep the overhead lines ice free. They came up with this solution after a similar cold situation years earlier.
It worked and they were proud. With the compliments to them from Melanie the city elder on LinkedIn. And many inhabitants.
https://mastodon.nl/@rrustema020/115864368786430949

2025-12-13 18:44:19 CET

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Waarom moet dit via share.google als link? Het Parool heeft gewoon parool.nl als domein hoor!
https://www.parool.nl/nederland/natuurmonumenten-gaat-verzuring-in-heidegebied-keren-met-strooien-van-steenmeel-het-is-al-vijf-over-twaalf~b4303d12/
En wie geen abonnement heeft kan die url dan ook op andere plekken proberen voor een gratis krantenknipsel.
Maar hier een beetje share.google delen, nee toch! Ons dwingen onze interesses, ip-adres, fingerprint enzo aan Google kado te doen? Daar wil je niet medeschuldig aan zijn toch?
Het artikel is overigens interessant, maakt de stikstofproblemen concreet!

2025-12-05 14:37:52 CET

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It is possible for one member state to accept the approval given by another if there is a public health risk... https://eur-lex.europa.eu/EN/legal-content/summary/procedures-for-the-registration-of-motor-vehicles-originating-in-another-member-state.html
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2025-12-05 13:47:01 CET

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What certainly does not help is the inconsistency in policy caused by the Individual Vehicle Approval for the American cars that we want to keep out.
"Why are our cars not allowed in while they are already driving around for years on European roads?" the Americans might ask.
I have no answer to that. And I don't see those cars already in not taken off the road either.

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.
00:00:17.700 --> 00:00:25.020
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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2025-11-13 17:07:43 CET

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Just studied both https://www.patreon.com/c/notjustbikes/ and https://nebula.tv/notjustbikes but I can't find an option to throw an extra donation in your direction for this. Earmarked 'monstertrucks' preferably.
Could you set up some crowdfunding of some kind? Or does that distract people from longterm subscriptions?
Upgrading my subscription on a monthly basis is a bit overblown in this context. Or should I just upgrade from Bicycle (€30/y) to Tram (€11,5/m) on Patreon for a month and then downgrade?

2025-11-13 11:23:15 CET

National news about the dangerous American cars that might be welcomed on European roads!
https://eenvandaag.avrotros.nl/artikelen/meer-verkeersdoden-hier-door-handelsdeal-met-vs-europa-versoepelt-veiligheidseisen-voor-grote-amerikaanse-autos-161867
Journalist (in the 1st fragment) also tried such a car and explains 'You are a danger for others on the road, you are mostly busy trying not to hit something, it constantly beeps'.
In the 2nd fragment some figures. Since 2010 36% road casualties in the EU and an increase of 30% in the US.
Conclusion after driving a Dodge: "we were the most hated on the road."
@npub1z7x…q5jf
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2025-11-10 18:36:31 CET

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I pay Nebula for a subscription, that helps, doesn't it? Or should I use Patreon? I think I do both, not completely sure.

2025-11-10 11:39:18 CET

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Just use https://freetubeapp.io to watch Youtube-videos. Or get the Nebula.tv subscription. Then you also pay creators.

2025-10-23 00:22:33 CEST

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Also note the sentence: "and that work to reform Individual Vehicle Approval be continued."

2025-10-23 00:02:12 CEST

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Your call is echoed by a coalition of major cities in Europe. And road safety organisations. And all relevant NGOs. Here is their letter to the European Commission https://archive.ph/Qb2Nn
Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, etc. The list goes on. It is just a very respectable and broad coalition.
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2025-08-25 11:01:20 CEST

I would love to see a @npub1z7x…q5jf video about the taxi and the city. I wrote a blogposting explaining why https://rustema.nl/a-future-notjustbikes-video-about-the-taxi/
What would you expect in such a video and is missing in what I list already?
#taxi

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.

2025-07-18 23:53:50 CEST

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by chance I started a petition today. To have the police deal with motorists that crash into a tram or bus instead of delaying hundreds of passengers while the bureaucracy of dealing with the accident is dealt with by the driver of the tram or bus. Or in the case of a disruption of the schedules thousands of passengers. Only in Dutch though. https://ovdoorrijden.petities.nl and illustrated with a picture of American tourists who suddenly did a u-turn with the suv they rented.

2025-05-13 14:43:35 CEST

Als ik naar https://ovamsterdamhaarlemmermeer.nl/basisalternatieven/ kijk met het oeuvre van @npub1z7x…q5jf als achtergrond dan moet ik denk ik deze vragen stellen:
1. BRT-Netwerk. Gaan die bussen over de snelweg rijden ten koste van huidige rijstroken?
2. Airport Sprinter Plus. Waarom kostbare rail aanleggen in stedelijk gebied met weinig haltes?
3. Metro tot Schiphol / Metro tot Hoofddorp. Waarom vergt een metro naar Hoofddorp meer tunnel dan tot Schiphol?
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2025-04-27 17:30:41 CEST

As important as snow ploughs are in Canada are the street brushes on bike lanes after King’s Day in Amsterdam. All those broken bottles! @npub1z7x…q5jf
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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.
@npub1z7x…q5jf
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2025-04-04 09:37:12 CEST

New mobility policy in the Netherlands. Local situations are no longer calculated with 'hours lost in traffic' but instead with an index of reachability of 8 key destinations (work, school, hospital, supermarket, etc.) using the 5 modalities: car, bike, bike+public transport, just public transport, and by foot.
You can feed this document to translation software: https://open.overheid.nl/documenten/e74cee13-54bb-4e67-9ebb-817fd42e1f49/file
There, I infected your thinking with a new concept. Hard to undo. Enjoy!
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2025-03-29 14:58:33 CET

Tree roots are pushing up bicycle lanes in Amsterdam (also elsewhere?).
Please think with me. Could it be a solution to lay an iron mat over the tree roots composed of a grid filled with short vertical bamboo stems, which are then periodically horizontally cut?
The stems are pierced with iron wire to prevent them from sinking down were there are no roots.
Bicyclists then always have a perfectly level surface to drive on. Just a short bump, but very gradual. The tree can grow and gets rain.
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2025-03-26 15:45:24 CET

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He could also take the logos off and replace if for something else.

2025-03-24 09:52:45 CET

27% of households in the Netherlands has no car. For 650.000 out of the 8 million this is for financial reasons. The institute that did this research to answer the question ‘why do people have a car?’ concludes “For many households without a car the money is of no or little concern.” At https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/visualisaties/dashboard-bevolking/bevolkingspiramide I see the 20 somethings and elderly who can easily do without a car. @npub1z7x…q5jf https://mastodon.nl/@ikbenautovrij/114216550897934282

2025-03-23 15:54:27 CET

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What argumentation will you choose? Try to find something unique for the situation with a sense of urgency. I demonstrated that the clutter of bicycles on the pavement made it difficult to pass while many pedestrians go to the supermarket through that spot. In combination with increased bicycle ownership.

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.

2025-03-23 00:05:38 CET

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Yes, I successfully did it in my street. They check https://maps.amsterdam.nl/parkeerdruk/ and the argumentation.
In my case, a nearby GOW street had little space for bikes but many addresses. So people would park just round the corner in my street.
The 'fietsvlonder’ was first used in de Kinkerstraat and just became available to be used somewhere else.

2025-03-20 10:41:40 CET

In de laatste e-mail van de @npub1rus…mj3f wordt de laatste video van @npub1z7x…q5jf ook aangeraden: https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-how-is-a-bike-tunnel-this-freakn-great
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2025-03-09 23:12:27 CET

Notice the influence of @npub1z7x…q5jf on XKCD as representative of nerds online: https://xkcd.com/2832/ “Urban Planning Opinion Progression"

2025-02-20 17:54:52 CET

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also as an op-ed in a prominent Dutch newspaper today! https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/02/19/de-meeste-mensen-staan-veel-positiever-tegenover-een-autoluwe-samenleving-dan-we-denken-a4883698 One can only hope for the same in English and Americans newspapers.

2025-02-18 22:02:53 CET

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Toch zijn dergelijke vliegers niet de bulk. Zo vaak bezoeken ze familie niet. De meeste vliegen (korte vluchten) op hetzelfde continent. Een kleine groep veelvliegers maakt de meeste kilometers.

2025-02-18 00:05:46 CET

@npub1z7x…q5jf Survey about motonormativity in NL, UK & USA. (…) “showed that the Netherlands’ mean motonormativity score was significantly lower than the other two countries (both p < 0.001) whereas the UK and USA did not differ significantly (p = 0.55).”
"but still, most people in The Netherlands considered their own support for non-car travel to be stronger than infrastructural and, especially, government support.”
and read more fun findings here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378025000172#bb0170 #motonormativity

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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2025-02-10 20:28:31 CET

@npub1z7x…q5jf 75% of the car free Amsterdammers like the 30km/h measure and 52% of car owners do... https://panel.amsterdam.nl/jambo/files/j.a.m.b.o/public-files/Rapportages%20voor%20resultaten%20pagina/Nieuwsbrief%20Stadspanel%20Amsterdam%203.pdf
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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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2025-02-05 10:48:57 CET

@npub1z7x…q5jf Did you know that the Jeep, Dodge en RAM trucks come from an Amsterdam-based car factory? https://archive.ph/IlVdt Actually, it is not Amsterdam but two train stations south of it: Taurusavenue 1, 2132 LS, Hoofddorp. The train station is behind it! There is a small but still underused car park if you really want to go there by car. If you memorised all NJB videos you recognise this spot from this video about “crappy business parks near the airport” https://youtu.be/SDXB0CY2tSQ?feature=shared&t=31
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2025-01-09 11:07:22 CET

@npub1z7x…q5jf In spite of this problematic ruling coalition in the Netherlands we still have relatively independent institutes producing reports with excellent research questions. This one asks the question who benefits from choices in infrastructure. Does it favour the rich or the poor? An improved bike lane, does it increase the number of schools children can choose from? Do manual labourers benefit from a new metro? https://www.kimnet.nl/publicaties/rapporten/2025/01/09/verdelingseffecten-van-mobiliteitsbeleid Throw the pdf in your favourite translation tool...

2025-01-05 18:51:20 CET

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In Amsterdam I would feel entitled to just take over the road and bike in the middle of it. Don't expect much anger from the motorists because they can see there is no alternative. Would not be fined I am sure, for the same reason. Luckily the bike lanes are cleaned and I never felt the need for such a stunt. Probably the city understands what a mess it would be if bicyclists are all deprived of their bike lane and start using the main road.

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.

2024-10-19 00:26:50 CEST

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Made a reference to this article and the one in The Guardian next to my petition https://bansuvs.petities.nl/?locale=en already.

2024-09-11 15:59:38 CEST

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Yikes, more bicycling streets? Always a bad idea to have cars share infrastructure with bikes. Even if the cars are pulled by donkeys or pushed manually. Still not good. The city writes that the volume of bicyclists during rush hour is just too big. Better have the cars share space with the tram.

2024-09-11 15:53:19 CEST

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For those who became curious. From the first pdf linked from https://www.amsterdam.nl/projecten/sarphatistraat/ page 13-15. Compare with the streetview of this substandard, aged end of a bicycling artery https://maps.app.goo.gl/gPCBhJyY9Vb4gKTXA
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2024-09-11 15:45:07 CEST

@npub1z7x…q5jf For international entertainment. This message from Amsterdam.
Below this image the city writes “we are going to make more space for bicyclists, accessible public transport, pedestrians and green”
The image is not an artist impression of what it will become, but the current situation…
https://social.amsterdam.nl/@gemeenteamsterdam/113119112875170947
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2024-08-29 11:26:31 CEST

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“I have long been struck,” he writes, “by the ingenuity and thoroughness with which wheeled traffic was excluded” from cities such as Rome and Pompeii.
“The entire system of mainly one-way streets, blocked streets, closed streets ... show that traffic flow was not unrestricted,”
These carriages, driven poorly, could also be deadly, another reason for restricting their passage.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2024/08/28/how-ancient-rome-restricted-wheeled-traffic-and-why-cargobikes-are-best-for-todays-cities/
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2024-08-14 16:19:10 CEST

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I expect the latter. Taxi drivers can pretend to drive around with customers (I see a lot of them driving around empty) and at the end of the day deposit cash at the bank pretending the cash is from clients. While in fact it is drugs money coming from a gigantic pile of garbage bags with ‘useless' cash.
Also you can see tourists getting in a taxi for just a few hundred meters. They bought a little envelope or some pills while bureaucratically they paid for a ride!

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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2024-08-04 11:44:03 CEST

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better yet, “the fire department does not allow more cars on this important street” is a message I would like to see on busy roads. With some traffic filter to decrease the capacity of the road, pushing traffic jams back to neighbourhoods. So people can decide: to leave this mess I can just take a bike to that important road and ride together with others. Like... a bus?