The city is almost free of cars
carfreeamsterdamWhen you first arrive at Amsterdam’s Centraal Station, you’ll see the taxi stands and then a busy and car-filled intersection just past that, so this point is easy to miss on your own. But once you get out of that one small area, as long as you don’t follow the one busy street (called Damrak), you’ll barely see any cars driving around the city. The Amsterdam public transportation system is fantastic, consisting mostly of trams, but also of some buses and even a metro network. Then add in all the bikes mentioned above, and there is almost no use for a car.
Yes, this is partly also because parking in Amsterdam is expensive and hard to find, and the result is that very few people drive at all. This creates a sense of calmness that is only similar to Venice, Italy. The calmness is usually interrupted by a local whose bike bell is desperately trying to remind you that you are standing in a busy bike path, but you catch on to how that works quickly enough. The trams are also nearly silent, and their loud digital bell sound effects are also quick to point out that you are about to get run over unless you move aside. Still, big chunks of the city are pedestrian only, or just pedestrians and bikes, so it feels like a sustainable green urban paradise in many ways if you look around.
The city is almost free of carscarfreeamsterdamWhen you first arrive at Amsterdam’s Centraal Station, you’ll see the taxi stands and then a busy and car-filled intersection just past that, so this point is easy to miss on your own. But once you get out of that one small area, as long as you don’t follow the one busy street (called Damrak), you’ll barely see any cars driving around the city. The Amsterdam public transportation system is fantastic, consisting mostly of trams, but also of some buses and even a metro network. Then add in all the bikes mentioned above, and there is almost no use for a car.Yes, this is partly also because parking in Amsterdam is expensive and hard to find, and the result is that very few people drive at all. This creates a sense of calmness that is only similar to Venice, Italy. The calmness is usually interrupted by a local whose bike bell is desperately trying to remind you that you are standing in a busy bike path, but you catch on to how that works quickly enough. The trams are also nearly silent, and their loud digital bell sound effects are also quick to point out that you are about to get run over unless you move aside. Still, big chunks of the city are pedestrian only, or just pedestrians and bikes, so it feels like a sustainable green urban paradise in many ways if you look around.
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