Comments by "mormacil" (@mormacil) on "Why Amsterdam is Building a New Red Light District" video.

  1. The main goal is to reduce the impact the RLD has on the citizens living there. The impact on the ladies is secondary to most people. They just want less drunken tourists causing a ruckus. So for most people this isn't remotely a poor decision. They don't want to recreate the RLD, because they consider it's existence to be an issue. They're not making choices for the ladies that work that but for the people that live there.
    67
  2.  @yurisonovab3892  They want less tourists downtown, not in the whole city. So building a center outside downtown is conflicting with that how?
    22
  3.  @yurisonovab3892  If the issue is to many on a specific location how is moving the location not the solution. Both main locations for the new sex tower are located in areas that are significantly more open and further removed from residential buildings.
    8
  4. Could be worse, could look a lot more like Rotterdam.
    8
  5. I don't see the conflict?
    4
  6.  @LCTesla  De Polder is pretty big but you're right less coffeeshops. But at the expense of it being Rotterdam so that still feels like a loss.
    2
  7. City has an issue with to many low income tourists, much more then they got a use for. In fact they cause significant costs to keep them moving smoothly. If anything this reduces costs for the city. But yeah it sucks for the sex workers.
    2
  8.  @Ofasia777  Educating yourself is commendable. I always been kind of a fan of the plan to move more and more attractions to Zuid, it's a good location for things. Doesn't have to be sex but some museums wouldn't be amiss or something more commercial. It already houses the convention centers.
    2
  9. How is this more commercialized then entire streets dedicated to displaying it?
    1
  10.  @duckface81  They did build the buildings for sex workers.
    1
  11.  @marcokonst4144  You should really know that Dutch majors aren't elected. Nobody from Amsterdam voted for her...
    1
  12. There's significantly more space in South for a few million tourists.
    1
  13.  @Ofasia777  RLD visitors are a tiny part of the tourist industry of Amsterdam and the majority of the costs. Amsterdam is actively spending money to make low income tourists like British stag parties to stay away. They're buying ad space in the UK to get them to stay away. Amsterdam wants to invest more into high income high culture tourists. Like around Museumplein which houses some of the most famous museums in the world. That brings in significantly more then the RLD.
    1
  14.  @anthonydowling3356  Coldius called them ladies, merely using his terminology for clarity. Not sure what they're ripping off though.
    1