In the author's view it is absurd that two million people with their cars come into the queue daily, in The Netherlands. Measures as ramp metering, electronic road pricing, car pooling or road-widening give no solution. It is known that these measures do not work. The Dutch society comes striding along a traffic infarct. How has this happened and why is it so difficult to attack the queue problem effectively ? The measures of today attack only the symptoms and not the nuisance itself. They are technical solutions which are passing the quintessence of the matter. Freedom of mobility without responsibility causes auto anarchy. The car has proven itself as a usefull transport mode. The Dutch society cannot function without a car, society cannot function without a car, but individuals can do so. The question of queues has adopted such proportions that only heavy interventions are inescapable. If a responsible use of the car cannot be on a voluntary base, than compulsion is unevitable, even when there is no public participation.
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