Here in Brazil this video deeply touched me and some people I know. We're in the middle of a fierce political and cultural battle for each square centimeter of urban space in my city. This video gave us some hope. Bless you all!!!!
As a Taiwanese, this video really made me think a lot. The traffic in Taiwan now is even much worse than this video, which was filmed 50 years ago. Taiwanese people was deeply brainwashed by the government to believe that car-centric cities can make their life better. That resulted in so called “living hell for pedestrians”, and this issue is highly discussed in Taiwan now. I really hope that every Taiwanese citizen could watch this video and realize that we have another choice to achieve happier, safer and freer life, by accepting the concept of human-centric cities.
Great,Less motorized traffic,Less pollution.Now,cycle is much popular in Holland but in 1972,no cycle was seen in this clip,3rd world particularly learn a lesson from these Kids.Thanks from Pakistan.
Mmm.... I saw at least eight bikes. But it's true that it's nothing compared to the amount of cyclists you see nowadays in this particular neighborhood. Say hello to Pakistan!
In case people are interested: Many streets in this doc are closed off to car traffic to this day, trees were planted, and it has become a nightmare to navigate by car while there's plenty of room for pedestrians and bikes.
La voiture prend 10m2 au sol pour une personne il ne faut pas l'oublier . Le but c'est de donner davantage d'espace a la vie. En voiture oui il faut faire des détours et c'est très bien pour ne pas encourager ce mode de transport gourmand en espace vital . Mieux vaut planter des arbres pour lutter contre le réchauffement climatique que des routes.
Amsterdam has come a long way since those (ironic) gray times :) It's a shame here (Portugal) we still vanglosrize the automobile ... but we're getting on the way to a greener and colourfull future.
What a perfect video. Amsterdam's my favorite city in the world going back in November.. I love how the streets are cleared from the cars thank God for that period the bicycles can roll free
I loved the fight half way through! He looks like Michael Palins character from "A Fish called WWWwanda"! Also, you can see the Man holding the Microphone beside the Van.This is a great video for modern times, perhaps more Cities will follow suit.
Amazing....hope the people of Trinidad & Tobago would wake up soon to the menace of the automobile! It's killing us literally and largely unnecessary on tiny islands with ease of walkability and bikeability, if only we'd close the streets to vehicles and open them to people, and develop safe bike infrastructure! This activism by the children was so inspiring to look at! We haven't made any physical improvements to our environment, and continue to cramp people onto narrow sidewalks, while we leave streets open for metal boxes.
Preach it‼️ And look at the crime, I think there is a link between the numbers of 🚙 and the violent crimes plus robbery. If there wasn't so many cars in T&T crime might go down.
this is why I have a great admiration for the Dutch they are bonkers yet very rationale, what is it in there national psyche that precipitates such behaviours in contrast to hear in the UK where most people are obliging of the statusquo of unattractive city centres. People are very much wedded to their cars as a form of identity and they equate providing for cycling in city centres as making a city less successful when in fact it is quite the contrary. Many make up excuses like how will I be able to get to work, how will I get to the shops, the answer is the bus or cycle, its a whole system perspective and they are too selfish.
"Todo está diseñado para los coches, ¿por qué no vamos todos en bicicleta?" El sueño y la lucha organizada de niñas y niños, trenzada con el vecindario, urbanistas y otros sectores, logró que la amabilidad de la bicicleta se convirtiera en protagonista de la movilidad en la ciudad, frente a la hostilidad del coche en Ámsterdam.
Het gaat hier om de kinderen en hun power, niet de buurt. Hier zie je kinderen die niet bang zijn.... Ze praten met vreemden en voelen zich thuis! NU zijn jonge kinderen beschermd door hun ouders die bang zijn, dus ze praten niet met vreemden.... want dat hoort niet volgens de ouders!
Nowadays things have changed a lot. One way streets, or no cars allowed at all, old houses demolished or renovated ... You need to have a lot of money to buy a rather small house in De Pijp. 60 m2 will cost you at least 550.000 euro.
I was born there in 1958 near the Albert Cuypmarket and in the early sixties there were only a few cars parked and plenty room to play but during the sixties into the seventies that changed quickly and the streets were filled up with parked cars everywhere. The old neighbourhoods were never designed for cars, small streets designed for horse and wagon in the 19th century but in the 60/70ties everybody earned more money and could afford a car. I think it was from the ninetees that everything in the Pijp was changing and more and more cars dissapeared. Funny detail; in those days you hear that everybody was talking with an Amsterdam accent like me, nowadays almost no people talk with that accent anymore and most of them are outsiders.
5:00 while he got outof his car and was taking the baracade to put it far away, a protestor could have gotten into the car, driven it far away and left it :)
That time in holland/ amsterdam we got big social housing plans 100,000 s houses every year for normal rent prices, the last 20 years the housing projects slowed down because they only want to built in the private sector , where the money is !
This video is part of the documentaire; 1972 Namens de kinderen van de Pijp. ¿right? Anyone knows where can I find the whole documentaire subtitled to english?
Too bad that the cursing (with Amsterdam accent) is not translated 😀People were passionate and didn't take NO for an answer. Love it! This old footage is priceless if you ask me.
Back from those days were we went on the street to demonstrate or let our voice be heard. Not only in Amsterdam. These days we are cowards afraid to loose or income, safety, etc, not knowing we wont change any if we wont step up our rights, but think the government will take care.
I thought the same. A pity it's not a working class area now. I was there 3 years ago, yes it's nice to have bicycles and not cars, but it's just lots of cafe's and people trying to be trendy. I'm 62 now, I remember when people were more normal.
Ja, ik ben in 1958 in de pijp bij de Albert Cuyp geboren maar er wonen nog maar weinig Amsterdammers tegenwoordig, het zijn nu vooral juppen en vroeger waren het arbeiders en middenstanders.
Gaaf dit ik word emotioneel van Zij willen gewoon spelen en mensen doen moeilijk alsof zij nooit kinderen zijn geweest….das fuckd up Had ik ook daar willen zijn
Das war vor mehr als 50 Jahren ... und wo sind wir heute genau mit diesem Thema ? That happend more than 50 years ago and far we with the very exact topic today ? #socialJustice #NoJusticeNoPeace
This and the majority of Amsterdam has been heavily pedestrianized. It’s a huge difference in constrast to this. Only the area is heavily gentrified and has no working class anymore.
I am from Amsterdam and know that area good, then , it was not the only bad hood , it almost was everywhere, 25000 euro for a 3 etage house, now it is250.000 euro for a single etage , amsterdam now is for the rich people
I think this is fantastic if only such things happened in the UK, but that would give the rail and such even more excuse to put the price of travel up even more. Motorcycles, scooters, electric bikes, electric super bikes, and so on ditch the car, it's fat, it takes up too much room, it wastes so much resources and it blocks roads. I would happily give up the car in favour of a lit motors c1.
+flitsies depending on where one lives a car is a redundant asset I think. We are far too stupid in the UK to go Dutch, we are like 30 years behind them at least.
CJTaylor 87 Not sure I would agree that a car is completely redundant because they can be useful for moving stuff around. But what I've never understood about the Dutch is why they lumped motorcycles in with cars, they are clearly two different animals in fact motorcycles are very much like the bicycle except with a motor. The odd thing is for long journeys motorcycles can be very advantageous. I also find it hard to understand no impossible to understand why a country like the UK seem so eager to issue tickets to motorcycles for parking when clearly motorcycles don't cause problems, and also why motorcycle bays tend to be placed in the most awkward of places. I mean why does the govt insist motorcycles park at right angles to the road ie with the bike sticking out into the road rather than having them park parallel to the road and thus not sticking out into the road. One way causes problems because the bike is sticking out into the road the other way is no problem ie not sticking out into the road. The UK law is a complete and utter mystery to any sensible person, you could have a string of motorcycles parked along the pavement and still not cause a problem. I think the UK has stone age minds running things. I would like to see more motorcycles and bicycles and less cars. I would also like to see motorcyclists city riding have the ability to choose to wear a cycle helmet instead of that huge thing we have to wear in order to reduce over heating in summer.
flitsies yeah ofcourse a car is not completely redundant but I know of families who just have cars on there driveway and don't get used that often, just sitting there. I am sorry I know little about the motorcycle, it just makes you wonder that they are almost certainly neglected, never really stopped to consider the accommodation of motorcycles. Although just the other week i read about motorcyclists round my locality who were upset about a long stretch of cycle lane which had this new but bizarre division with the main roadway in the form of these raised hedgehog things even 2 metres, they say that this type of road layout is very dangerous to motorcyclists. Well in regards your accounts of poor parking facilities for motorcyclists we all know about a similarly ludicrous situation of those cycle lanes that go for 10m or less then finish and are just so horrendously designed its amusing.
CJTaylor 87 It does make you wonder about the people who come up with these ideas doesn't it. I'm all in favour of bicycles I ride one myself sometimes but like your hedgehog things you have there, in the UK they come up with some pretty stupid ideas from time to time which is often seriously dangerous to motorcycles. As a motorcycle rider and a bicycle rider and a car driver and a large vehicle driver I find it really annoying that the planners don't take better care when designing their roads. In the UK they do stupid things like narrow a road down to one vehicle even though wide enough to accommodate upwards of three, which obviously causes congestion and pollution and is a danger to cyclists and motorcyclists it's damned crazy. Another thing that bugs me is the fact that electric bikes in the UK are limited to 250 watts that huge leap from 200 watts all the way up to that extra 50 watts, surely if they wanted to get people out of their cars they would offer the same type of law as California ie 500 watts with a 750 peak and 20 mph. That way all the fat one's who can't ride have a chance to have a go and feel safe enough to keep up with traffic. As it stands lots of the electric bikes often get bought and left as coat hangers cos they don't go fast enough.
Eerste van der Helststraat is autovrij maar de ruimte is volledig ingepikt door terrasen voor de horeca. In het midden nog een smal strookje voor voetgangers.
Ze kunnen toch in het park gaan spelen. Volgens mij wonen er ook niet meer zoveel kinderen als vroeger. En vier euro in de oude pijp en drie euro in de nieuwe pijp hebben het parkeer probleem ook opgelost; ik kan altijd wel een plekje vinden. :-)
Yes fuck off to this comment because it represents the other opposing comments from the kind of people who are the problem - and the problem people are those who are so ignorant, insane and deprived of life's basic social realities that they cannot even understand that a "city" should not be 100% efficient for cars - and more ignorant are these people that they cannot even understand that the point of having no traffic in a neighbourhood is that it allows the neighbourhood to have the quiet and normal environment that small towns have - and one commenter said "but motorcylces should be allowed" and this is also an example of somebody who has no experience, understanding or appreciation for the point of this story: that traffic is an ugly disturbance to a neighbourhood just like a kazoo and a tambourine is an ugly disturbance to a prayer vigil - and these "opponents" (idiots) to the idea of peaceful neighbourhoods being allowed to exist in some parts of a city would only be "opponents" (idiots) for the single argument that their automaton soulless consumer goal of getting from one place to another in a line as straight as possible, at a speed as fast as possible, and with as few delays as possible is more important than the people who live in the neighbourhood that idiot with a vehicle thinks he owns just because it has a road.
Here in Brazil this video deeply touched me and some people I know. We're in the middle of a fierce political and cultural battle for each square centimeter of urban space in my city. This video gave us some hope. Bless you all!!!!
I am reading this 7 years late and the battle still going on! mas nao vamos desistir
And I, 8 years later, got equally touched and motivated.
CARROS SÃO VISITA!
Good luck from the Netherlands❤️
Ten years later how has this worked out for your group❓
Seeing kids triumph over adults like that is mind blowing.
As a Taiwanese, this video really made me think a lot. The traffic in Taiwan now is even much worse than this video, which was filmed 50 years ago. Taiwanese people was deeply brainwashed by the government to believe that car-centric cities can make their life better. That resulted in so called “living hell for pedestrians”, and this issue is highly discussed in Taiwan now. I really hope that every Taiwanese citizen could watch this video and realize that we have another choice to achieve happier, safer and freer life, by accepting the concept of human-centric cities.
Thanks for this. It resonates.
Great,Less motorized traffic,Less pollution.Now,cycle is much popular in Holland but in 1972,no cycle was seen in this clip,3rd world particularly learn a lesson from these Kids.Thanks from Pakistan.
Mmm.... I saw at least eight bikes. But it's true that it's nothing compared to the amount of cyclists you see nowadays in this particular neighborhood.
Say hello to Pakistan!
These kids are more politically engaged than most adults today, it seems.
dont come back they know nothing
In case people are interested: Many streets in this doc are closed off to car traffic to this day, trees were planted, and it has become a nightmare to navigate by car while there's plenty of room for pedestrians and bikes.
+Andromeda2803 is that not the point! that cars are not going through area unless they have a real need to do so.
Good.
Wonderful. We need to do this in nyc asap.
La voiture prend 10m2 au sol pour une personne il ne faut pas l'oublier . Le but c'est de donner davantage d'espace a la vie. En voiture oui il faut faire des détours et c'est très bien pour ne pas encourager ce mode de transport gourmand en espace vital . Mieux vaut planter des arbres pour lutter contre le réchauffement climatique que des routes.
What's the air pollution and noise pollution levels like nowadays.
The 60's and 70's were amazing in the way they inspired people to change the world.
Amsterdam has come a long way since those (ironic) gray times :) It's a shame here (Portugal) we still vanglosrize the automobile ... but we're getting on the way to a greener and colourfull future.
What a perfect video. Amsterdam's my favorite city in the world going back in November.. I love how the streets are cleared from the cars thank God for that period the bicycles can roll free
Not a Mickael Coville speech, or Enrique Peñalosa video made me feel like this one. This is maybe the best video about livable cities. Amazing!
I loved the fight half way through! He looks like Michael Palins character from "A Fish called WWWwanda"! Also, you can see the Man holding the Microphone beside the Van.This is a great video for modern times, perhaps more Cities will follow suit.
Nearly a decade later, what's your verdict❓
Amazing....hope the people of Trinidad & Tobago would wake up soon to the menace of the automobile! It's killing us literally and largely unnecessary on tiny islands with ease of walkability and bikeability, if only we'd close the streets to vehicles and open them to people, and develop safe bike infrastructure! This activism by the children was so inspiring to look at! We haven't made any physical improvements to our environment, and continue to cramp people onto narrow sidewalks, while we leave streets open for metal boxes.
Preach it‼️ And look at the crime, I think there is a link between the numbers of 🚙 and the violent crimes plus robbery.
If there wasn't so many cars in T&T crime might go down.
Ronald Dam had more drip at early age than i have my entire life
this is why I have a great admiration for the Dutch they are bonkers yet very rationale, what is it in there national psyche that precipitates such behaviours in contrast to hear in the UK where most people are obliging of the statusquo of unattractive city centres. People are very much wedded to their cars as a form of identity and they equate providing for cycling in city centres as making a city less successful when in fact it is quite the contrary. Many make up excuses like how will I be able to get to work, how will I get to the shops, the answer is the bus or cycle, its a whole system perspective and they are too selfish.
Thank you for sharing, a real eye opener.
"Todo está diseñado para los coches, ¿por qué no vamos todos en bicicleta?"
El sueño y la lucha organizada de niñas y niños, trenzada con el vecindario, urbanistas y otros sectores, logró que la amabilidad de la bicicleta se convirtiera en protagonista de la movilidad en la ciudad, frente a la hostilidad del coche en Ámsterdam.
Fuck cars! Every city needs this.
This is great. Trying to do same in some dense parts of Arlington Virginia but fighting the county the entire way
oh man 1 dislike why?... this is so creative clip i admire those children good work
right now 11
Haters always are there
Het gaat hier om de kinderen en hun power, niet de buurt. Hier zie je kinderen die niet bang zijn.... Ze praten met vreemden en voelen zich thuis! NU zijn jonge kinderen beschermd door hun ouders die bang zijn, dus ze praten niet met vreemden.... want dat hoort niet volgens de ouders!
Visited De Pijp last year..can't believe these two are the same place.
this song was so much of mychildhood
wow this is the beggins now amsterdam is the city of pedestrian and bicycles
Nowadays things have changed a lot. One way streets, or no cars allowed at all, old houses demolished or renovated ... You need to have a lot of money to buy a rather small house in De Pijp. 60 m2 will cost you at least 550.000 euro.
I highly suggest looking up what "de Pijp Amsterdam" looks like now.
I was born there in 1958 near the Albert Cuypmarket and in the early sixties there were only a few cars parked and plenty room to play but during the sixties into the seventies that changed quickly and the streets were filled up with parked cars everywhere. The old neighbourhoods were never designed for cars, small streets designed for horse and wagon in the 19th century but in the 60/70ties everybody earned more money and could afford a car. I think it was from the ninetees that everything in the Pijp was changing and more and more cars dissapeared. Funny detail; in those days you hear that everybody was talking with an Amsterdam accent like me, nowadays almost no people talk with that accent anymore and most of them are outsiders.
5:00 while he got outof his car and was taking the baracade to put it far away, a protestor could have gotten into the car, driven it far away and left it :)
people in those days were good wouldn't do such offensive :P
Amazing, we could do with more kids like this in the UK.
That time in holland/ amsterdam we got big social housing plans 100,000 s houses every year for normal rent prices, the last 20 years the housing projects slowed down because they only want to built in the private sector , where the money is !
Now it's the motor scooters and similar (two-stroke engine) vehicles in Amsterdam. What a stressful mess they have made of the center!
This is amazing.
This video is part of the documentaire; 1972 Namens de kinderen van de Pijp. ¿right? Anyone knows where can I find the whole documentaire subtitled to english?
ua-cam.com/video/iquhf_Mon7E/v-deo.html
you can select youtube subtitles.
Where is Ronald Dam now?
Too bad that the cursing (with Amsterdam accent) is not translated 😀People were passionate and didn't take NO for an answer. Love it!
This old footage is priceless if you ask me.
2:25 haha heerlijk accentje
WOW IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED THE CITY IS FULL OF BICYCLES NOW
Wauw dit is goud!
Back from those days were we went on the street to demonstrate or let our voice be heard. Not only in Amsterdam. These days we are cowards afraid to loose or income, safety, etc, not knowing we wont change any if we wont step up our rights, but think the government will take care.
Is this video available without embedded English subtitles? A friend would like to add Portuguese subtitles to it.
Yes, the full 39 minute version is on UA-cam several times: 1972 Namens de kinderen van de Pijp
BicycleDutch
Is the full documentary available with English subtitles?
I don't think so.
Do you have it with portuguese subtitles already?
After it was gentrified in the early eighties, de Pijp, where I was born in 65, now is filled with bakfietsen.
I thought the same. A pity it's not a working class area now. I was there 3 years ago, yes it's nice to have bicycles and not cars, but it's just lots of cafe's and people trying to be trendy. I'm 62 now, I remember when people were more normal.
Ja, ik ben in 1958 in de pijp bij de Albert Cuyp geboren maar er wonen nog maar weinig Amsterdammers tegenwoordig, het zijn nu vooral juppen en vroeger waren het arbeiders en middenstanders.
That's Civilization.
Gaaf dit ik word emotioneel van
Zij willen gewoon spelen en mensen doen moeilijk alsof zij nooit kinderen zijn geweest….das fuckd up
Had ik ook daar willen zijn
Das war vor mehr als 50 Jahren ... und wo sind wir heute genau mit diesem Thema ?
That happend more than 50 years ago and far we with the very exact topic today ?
#socialJustice
#NoJusticeNoPeace
This and the majority of Amsterdam has been heavily pedestrianized. It’s a huge difference in constrast to this. Only the area is heavily gentrified and has no working class anymore.
de groeten aan onze Amsterdamse vrienden
Prachtig amsterdams accent!!
I am from Amsterdam and know that area good, then , it was not the only bad hood , it almost was everywhere, 25000 euro for a 3 etage house, now it is250.000 euro for a single etage , amsterdam now is for the rich people
Mooi
Rabbit at 9:07.
台灣的交通就是1972年荷蘭的交通 甚至更糟
Now the streets and parks are empty because everyone just plays with their phones all day.
There was much more freedom/free speech in both parts of Europe in 70ties - western and eastern. Greetings from Poland.
Toen kinderen nog goed konden zingen....
I think this is fantastic if only such things happened in the UK, but that would give the rail and such even more excuse to put the price of travel up even more.
Motorcycles, scooters, electric bikes, electric super bikes, and so on ditch the car, it's fat, it takes up too much room, it wastes so much resources and it blocks roads.
I would happily give up the car in favour of a lit motors c1.
+flitsies depending on where one lives a car is a redundant asset I think. We are far too stupid in the UK to go Dutch, we are like 30 years behind them at least.
CJTaylor 87 Not sure I would agree that a car is completely redundant because they can be useful for moving stuff around.
But what I've never understood about the Dutch is why they lumped motorcycles in with cars, they are clearly two different animals in fact motorcycles are very much like the bicycle except with a motor.
The odd thing is for long journeys motorcycles can be very advantageous.
I also find it hard to understand no impossible to understand why a country like the UK seem so eager to issue tickets to motorcycles for parking when clearly motorcycles don't cause problems, and also why motorcycle bays tend to be placed in the most awkward of places.
I mean why does the govt insist motorcycles park at right angles to the road ie with the bike sticking out into the road rather than having them park parallel to the road and thus not sticking out into the road.
One way causes problems because the bike is sticking out into the road the other way is no problem ie not sticking out into the road.
The UK law is a complete and utter mystery to any sensible person, you could have a string of motorcycles parked along the pavement and still not cause a problem.
I think the UK has stone age minds running things.
I would like to see more motorcycles and bicycles and less cars.
I would also like to see motorcyclists city riding have the ability to choose to wear a cycle helmet instead of that huge thing we have to wear in order to reduce over heating in summer.
flitsies yeah ofcourse a car is not completely redundant but I know of families who just have cars on there driveway and don't get used that often, just sitting there.
I am sorry I know little about the motorcycle, it just makes you wonder that they are almost certainly neglected, never really stopped to consider the accommodation of motorcycles. Although just the other week i read about motorcyclists round my locality who were upset about a long stretch of cycle lane which had this new but bizarre division with the main roadway in the form of these raised hedgehog things even 2 metres, they say that this type of road layout is very dangerous to motorcyclists.
Well in regards your accounts of poor parking facilities for motorcyclists we all know about a similarly ludicrous situation of those cycle lanes that go for 10m or less then finish and are just so horrendously designed its amusing.
CJTaylor 87 It does make you wonder about the people who come up with these ideas doesn't it.
I'm all in favour of bicycles I ride one myself sometimes but like your hedgehog things you have there, in the UK they come up with some pretty stupid ideas from time to time which is often seriously dangerous to motorcycles.
As a motorcycle rider and a bicycle rider and a car driver and a large vehicle driver I find it really annoying that the planners don't take better care when designing their roads.
In the UK they do stupid things like narrow a road down to one vehicle even though wide enough to accommodate upwards of three, which obviously causes congestion and pollution and is a danger to cyclists and motorcyclists it's damned crazy.
Another thing that bugs me is the fact that electric bikes in the UK are limited to 250 watts that huge leap from 200 watts all the way up to that extra 50 watts, surely if they wanted to get people out of their cars they would offer the same type of law as California ie 500 watts with a 750 peak and 20 mph.
That way all the fat one's who can't ride have a chance to have a go and feel safe enough to keep up with traffic.
As it stands lots of the electric bikes often get bought and left as coat hangers cos they don't go fast enough.
Hee! Ze spreken amsterdams! Ik woon vlakbij je hoort het nergens meer alleen Engels en Russisch.
Waarschijnlijk Oekraïns
Toen er in Amsterdam nog Amsterdammers woonden.
das geen verhaal
Wel hoor een strijders verhaal
Taiwan need this
De pijp is nu een Gooise wolk geworden
alsof die kinderen dat allemaal zelf bedacht hebben .
No Turkish marrocans lads seen in this vid (?)
Great, you have eyes. But there were immigrant workers in de pijp too
Be glad you are around today then! Who else could you blame for everything otherwise!
Eerste van der Helststraat is autovrij maar de ruimte is volledig ingepikt door terrasen voor de horeca. In het midden nog een smal strookje voor voetgangers.
Bientôt en France 🤣
台灣還有一堆民代想要限縮行人路權😂
Fock die mannen, t zijn haters. Pak mn 9 en laat hem praten.
hahah ik woon depijp
Ze kunnen toch in het park gaan spelen. Volgens mij wonen er ook niet meer zoveel kinderen als vroeger. En vier euro in de oude pijp en drie euro in de nieuwe pijp hebben het parkeer probleem ook opgelost; ik kan altijd wel een plekje vinden. :-)
so this is how this modern cities CANCER has begun... ask to build the park not close the street ffs
Fuck off, cities & streets r for people not cars & obese hippos who sit in them
Amsterdam is way better now
Yes fuck off to this comment because it represents the other opposing comments from the kind of people who are the problem - and the problem people are those who are so ignorant, insane and deprived of life's basic social realities that they cannot even understand that a "city" should not be 100% efficient for cars - and more ignorant are these people that they cannot even understand that the point of having no traffic in a neighbourhood is that it allows the neighbourhood to have the quiet and normal environment that small towns have - and one commenter said "but motorcylces should be allowed" and this is also an example of somebody who has no experience, understanding or appreciation for the point of this story: that traffic is an ugly disturbance to a neighbourhood just like a kazoo and a tambourine is an ugly disturbance to a prayer vigil - and these "opponents" (idiots) to the idea of peaceful neighbourhoods being allowed to exist in some parts of a city would only be "opponents" (idiots) for the single argument that their automaton soulless consumer goal of getting from one place to another in a line as straight as possible, at a speed as fast as possible, and with as few delays as possible is more important than the people who live in the neighbourhood that idiot with a vehicle thinks he owns just because it has a road.