in 1973, maatje launched a campaign called stop the child murder.his can't go on. and so more and more actions were taken. we were blocking roads in the rush—hour — people on their way home — drivers totally overtaken and surprised about mothers in a circle on the corner of the road, blocking it. and there you were, right at the front? maybe, yeah. me and this... maatje's efforts have been immortalised as the heroine of a new children's book. here we went through the tunnel, under the water, here in the — and then, on the other side, the police was there. the amount of space by the car traffic was so enormous that that was, well, eating up the space for cyclists and also pedestrians. the whole infrastructure of the netherlands was totally focused on — on, yeah, let's say, priority of cars. bikes was not an issue. today, amsterdam has 767 kilometres of cycle lanes and more bikes than people. but even here, the pandemic is changing the way people get about. because of covid—i9, it didn't feel right to go by tram any more, so it was actually the right

maatje van putten was a dutch politician. this is me and my son, 1976.s‘ traffic is in europe the most dangerous for children." maatje was a key player in the movement that transformed dutch cities in the 1960s and ‘70s. the start was there in the ‘70s when people got alarmed about the figures of children on the way to school. the accidents — the numbers were so high that we had to do something, and that's how it begun. here, the action groups — and this is us — "we want a car—free sunday at least once a month" — that was in the oil crisis... in 1973, maartje launched a campaign called stop the child murder. we sat together and said that this can't go on. we have to do something. and so more and more actions were taken. we were blocking roads in the rush—hour — people on their way home — drivers totally overtaken and surprised about mothers in a circle on the corner of the road, blocking it. and there you were, right at the front? maybe, yeah. me and this... maartje‘s efforts have been immortalised as the heroine of a new children's book. here we went th