To decrease the effect of growing vehicle ownership during the sixties and the seventies different countermeasures were taken. Problems to be solved in urban areas were (1) through traffic in roads which were not constructed for it, (2) rat run traffic in residential streets, (3) loss of space caused by parked cars, (4) lack of traffic safety for slow traffic, (5) channelling traffic for a certain destination through some streets appointed as "collector streets", and (6) the decrease of the habitat-function in urban areas by noise and air pollution. Examples of preventative countermeasures in urban areas are (1) reconstruction and reclassification into "woonerven", (2) the 30 km/hour speed limit, (3) pedestrian crossing inside built-up areas, (4) cycle tracks, (5) safer route to school for children, and (6) through traffic in small villages.
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