[josephcsible]

> Part of the design of Dutch cities is to make the fastest, most direct, most convenient form of transportation _not_ the car.

That's only a good thing if you accomplish it by making other forms of transportation faster and more direct. It's a bad thing if you do it by making cars slower and less direct.

[Gibbon1]

A thing that makes other forms of transport slow is called an urban freeway.

[wpm]

Why? Please elaborate.