Structural Vision 2040 of Amsterdam

 An unanimous approval on 17 februari by the city council of Amsterdam makes the Structural Vision 2040 defenitive, after a preparation of years. The vision aims at an attractive, sustainable, green city with enough houses on suitable locations. Briefly said this means adding about 70.000 dwellings to the existing city according to the municipality. Most must be accomplished by intensifying within the city and not by the traditional green field developments. This is a positive step because dutch cities, also Amsterdam, are usually not so dense compared with other European cities.

Moscow Mayor Plans for traffic

Sobyanin is the new mayor for Moscow. Luzkhov and Moscow became too much a city state with it's own king. As long as the king listens to the emperor and keeps his people silent there are no problems. Now the new appointed mayor must do something to keep the people silent. This is done in a way which is very smart. By promising to take away the gridlock which irritates the Muscovites daily. City Hall's web site crashed Wednesday after Mayor Sergei Sobyanin published his long-awaited plan to fight Moscow traffic jams.



Tversjkaya carpark-free



Harsh measures are directly in effect:

- City employers should wake up an hour earlier to be present at work at 8:00 reducing the transportpeak
- Trucks are no longer allowed to to appear on the streets between 07:00 hours and 22:00 hours
- banning parking on pavements (Tverksaja, the main shopping street is allready complaining)
- pedestrian passes are to be removed from streets and should go underground

- kiosks are blocking pavements and attracting cars and they should be removed, all of them.