His aversion to blocking the blind lanes in the city started not so long ago when he was walking through the city with a partially sighted girlfriend. Very Cruijffian actually: you only see it when you realize it. “I really didn’t pay attention to it before. Now it strikes me how often things go wrong. I really understand how it goes: there is a bicycle, and you just put yours next to it. If you don’t use it yourself a strip, then it’s not surprising that you don’t see it. It’s about awareness, that’s what you achieve the most with.”
Utrechtse Sjoerd fights tirelessly for a clean city center: ‘Principles simply take time and effort’
