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March 19, 2011

The Hague - Leeuwarden: Slow Urbanism and High Speed Train connexions

Today I had to go to my native Leeuwarden for a family visit. By car I get there within 2 hours. By train it takes almost 3 hours! And I did go by train. So I had all the time to think about this problem.
Finally, after much thinking, I got to Leeuwarden!

Slow Urbanism promotes public transport within the city. In case of the Netherlands this also means public transport in between cities as we don't have one big city. We are a country with a network of small interconnected cities. The strength of cities is it's own attractiveness and it's connectivity to other attractive cities. The trainstation environments themself have become attractive places.