Originally Posted by
lsquare
I personally think this is a terrible decision by the Dutch government. After billions of Euros have been invested at AMS, they've decided to do something this drastic.
Dutch government is famous for making emotional bad decisions to imitate green policy.
The other examples include:
- Reduction of speed limit on highways from 130 km/h to 100 km/h (80 to 62 mph) to meet the self-imposed reduction of greenhouse gases emission. They failed to force farmers to feed the cattle with less methane-producing solutions, and urgently targeted the pleasure of driving to meet the quota.
- Restrictions on residential construction: Even in the overheated real estate market the Dutch courts keep blocking permits for new houses because each residency adds to methane emissions by inhabitants in that location. Forgetting that the same inhabitants still emit methane within the country, only in worse living conditions.
- Airline tickets out of AMS keep getting increased fees for environmental reasons, and political activists lobby to raise them to restrictive levels.
Overall, passenger traffic will be lost towards airports in Brussels and Dusseldorf, while the amount of passengers flying around this small planet is unaffected by Dutch bureaucracy imitations of being green