Environmental issues.

Discouraging too much traffic in the inner city, in order to avoid airpolution ,is ofcourse something to be supported. Who wouldn't want to live and work in a clean and safe environment. But sometimes the measures taken have the opposite effect.

In all their wisedom our local government have initiated and supported several measurements and laws, that will drive every hotelowner up the wall, because of its shortsighteness.

The ideal situation is that if a guest arrives by car, he drives to the hotel, parks the car for its duration using public transport, and leaves again.
That means 2 carmovements per stay.

To discourage cars to come into the city they raised the parkingfees up to Euro 40 per day (!). Now, thát is expensive and discourages tourist to come to Amsterdam at all, thus bringing zero income for the city at large.

So they came up with 2 alternatives:

P+R ( Park and ride).
You leave the car on a secured parkingplace outside the centre, at a reasonable price, and get free tickets for public transport to reach the city and back.
Sounds good to you? Then follow this.
The guest drives to the hotel, dropping of their lugage and grandma, then drive to the P+R.
Upon check out they fetch the car, drive to the hotel to pick up the lugage and grandma and leave town.
I counted 4 car movements.

Or they support idears like 'carhotel'.A valetservice parking your car in secured garages on the border of town.
Count with me.
The guest drives to the hotel.There we call carhotel. They come with 2 persons in a car, each driving seperately back to the garage. Upon check out 2 cars drive to the hotel, after which one car leaves town with the guest and the other back to the garage.
Now, according to my count, that is 6 car movements.

Can you follow this 'logic'thinkinf of our local government?
Unfortunately it is what Amsterdam politics is all about......