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When a 26-year-old Deputy Mayor proposed a 1977 plan that made the centre of Groningen virtually impenetrable by car, his party was the subject of outrage, protests and death threats.

Decades later, no one regrets the change or remembers the controversy.

Fortune favours the brave.

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