Construction industry gossip: Strait is the gate

By Hansom2019-06-06T05:00:00

A cities of the future event prompts a dodgy way to travel and a council aiming for decor neutrality ends up rather off-colour

The crooked way

One of my hacks was lucky enough to get spirited away to Arcadis’ City of 2030 Accelerator in Amsterdam last week, which presented 10 tech start-ups with the opportunity to pitch their solutions for the cities of the future. Unfortunately, there was a public transport strike in the Dutch city that same day so a number of people were forced to look for alternative ways to make it from the airport to the event. My hack overheard one attendee who, fed up with waiting for an Uber, pretended to be someone else to the chap at the airport holding up a cardboard sign. A distinctly old-tech way to get from A to B.

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