What happens when cities value non-motorists’ time as much as motorists’? Amsterdam’s €12M Cuypers Passage tunnels below Centraal Station preventing a 600m detour and saving 25,000 daily users five minutes each. That’s 2,000 hours/day… 14,000 hours/week… 728,000 hours/year…

It's a beautiful tunnel, underpassing the entire 110m width of Amsterdam central station. Amazing in itself, only possible by removing the road along the Ij and putting that below the station too. Best part is the beautiful Delft tile artwork along the ped side by Irma Boom

I don't even need them to value my time, I just want them to value my life. This was the shared ped/bike path I ride along every day this morning. There's no other route across town without a long detour and that road has a 70kph limit so you can't ride or walk along it.

Or about one full life of a person every year. Saving one life every year is not bad for that price. If it lasts just 25 years it is less than 500K to save a life. Really cheap.

If governments had to pay for the time each individual took to travel, then I expect we would see a lot more of this.

@RailwayMuseum Look what you could have won! @Kallum_Of_York

@MarkLTighe Something I have to do every week is take a picture of where I parked my bike in Amsterdam

Wow - I want to go to there.

@Fabien_Bagnon

Next step: cleaning it sometimes. It’s so incredibly disgusting.

At a brisk 6kph walking, that's 10 mins saved by each person. 👍