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Bye Bye ‘Beer Bike’? Amsterdam Determined to Tame Tourism

posted by Fnord666 on Saturday May 19 2018, @08:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the courting-tame-tourism dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for Runaway1956

Amsterdam unveiled far-reaching plans on Wednesday to rein in tourism, reflecting the dissatisfaction of many residents who feel the city's historic center has been overrun.

The leading Green-Left and other parties negotiating a new municipal government after March elections vowed to return "Balance to the City", in a document of that name seen by Reuters.

"The positive sides of tourism such as employment and city revenues are being more and more overshadowed by the negative consequences" including trash and noise pollution, the document said.

Changes the document outlines include curtailing "amusement transportation" such as multi-person "beer bikes"; cracking down on alcohol use in boats on the canals; further restricting AirBnB and other home rentals; and a large tax hike.

The plans announced on Wednesday also include creating an inventory of all commercial beds in the city to try to cap various sectors such as those on cruise ships and in hotels.

"I'm very happy that the city is now finally taking action, because residents have been asking for it for a very long time," said Bert Nap of neighborhood organization d'Oude Binnenstad, in the historic center.

"What I'm worried about is that this package of measures is so drastic that there will be a lot of lawsuits and political resistance, which will cost a lot of time."

Source: http://www.oann.com/bye-bye-beer-bike-amsterdam-determined-to-tame-tourism/

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  • (Score: 2) by requerdanos on Saturday May 19 2018, @10:00PM (2 children)

    by requerdanos (5997) Subscriber Badge on Saturday May 19 2018, @10:00PM (#681675) Journal

    to return "Balance to the City"

    Didn't young Anakin bring "Balance to the Force"?

    It was not all it's cracked up to be.

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday May 19 2018, @10:11PM (1 child)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Saturday May 19 2018, @10:11PM (#681680) Journal

    That happened in a galaxy far far away.

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford

    • (Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 20 2018, @01:22AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 20 2018, @01:22AM (#681728)

      Rian Johnson and The Last Jedi retconned all that, who knew the resistance in Star Wars was a bunch of SJW assholes and the Empire were the good guys? Even the smoothest guy in the galaxy is now a "pansexual" sodomite according to the latest shit-fest. [theguardian.com]

      It's only when viewed in this context that Luke's character arc makes sense, of course he's not fighting for a bunch of narcissistic millennials. He'd side with the Empire every time rather than fight for intersectional, gender-fluid, obnoxious communist retards. We all would.