Keileweg is being rebuilt as a dockyard. In its heyday, up to women sold sex on the Keileweg and traffic jams built up on the street as potential clients cruised the area in their cars.
The women who worked on the street have been offered places in programmes to help them find another line of business. Amsterdam Council closed its street prostitution zone in the western harbour area at the end of as a result of ongoing problems with organised crime and the illegal trafficking of women.
Prostitute lobby groups and some healthcare workers criticised the move at the time, saying that the women who worked there would be forced elsewhere and would disappear from the protective supervision and treatment offered by the authorities.
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