Willem van Heijningen, a railway official responsible for bikes around the station, said, “It’s not a war zone, but it’s the next thing to it.”
The problem is that many Amsterdamers are not satisfied with just one bike, and often do not care where they leave those they have. “I have three,” said Timo Klein, 23, an economics student, picking one of his out from a scattering of dozens of bikes on the central Dam Square, some still usable, others clearly wrecks. “If one breaks down, I don’t have to use public transportation,”
get where they left their bike after a a visit to a coffee shop they may find another one of theirs.
via The Dutch Prize Their Pedal Power, but a Sea of Bikes Swamps Their Capital – NYTimes.com.