BBC Archive | 1974: WITKAR - Amsterdam's TRANSPORT REVOLUTION? | Tomorrow's World | Retro Transport | BBC Archive @BBCArchive | Uploaded October 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
"Amsterdam, like every other city in the world, is slowly being strangled by the motorcar."

William Woolard reports from the Netherlands on Witkar - an ambitious new community transport system being developed in Amsterdam, that uses a network of ranks of battery-powered three wheeled cars. Could this be the solution to Amsterdam's - and eventually the world's - traffic congestion problem?


Clip taken from Tomorrow's World, originally broadcast on BBC One, 17 October, 1974.





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