Actually for Amsterdam there is a well known example: traffic expert David A. Jokinen, partly funded by the car lobby group Stichting Weg, cf. https://en.wikip

Actually for Amsterdam there is a well known example: traffic expert David A. Jokinen, partly funded by the car lobby group Stichting Weg, cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jokinen_Plan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jokinen_Plan Fortunately his plans never came to much because of fierce opposition. They are representative of a certain way of thinking at the time though.