This bicycle tour fits perfectly with the annual theme of the Van Eesteren Museum: the car. Three years after Floor Wibaut died in 1936, this brand-new street was named after him. As part of the 1953 Reconstruction Plan, and to keep up with the pace of the peoples, it became a four-lane road and thus one of the widest city boulevards in Amsterdam. There were even plans to extend this road - including a metro line to the east - all the way to Central Station. Fortunately, the plan for the road was scrapped, but the metro route did go ahead - with the infamous Nieuwmarkt riots as a consequence).
Since then, Wibautstraat has become a symbol of the (by now outdated) idea that the car should be given as much free rein as possible in the city. Moreover, the street was long known as one of the ugliest streets in the city - and was even called by some 'the architectural axis of evil' (!)