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That's kind of the point. Part of the design of Dutch cities is to make the fastest, most direct, most convenient form of transportation _not_ the car.

You use a car when you _have_ to, not simply as a default. If it takes longer to get to your intra-city destination in a car, that's the city working as intended.

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> 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.

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

Why? Please elaborate.

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