Cities have dabbled with temporary bans on cars before, but rarely (if ever) on this scale. Paris just held a third “Day Without Cars” that forbade nearly all private transport across the complete core of the city — about 40 square miles of it. If you visited between 11AM and 6PM local time on October […]
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12 cities that are starting to go car-free
Wikipedia Commons In late 2016, Madrid’s Mayor Manuela Carmena reiterated her plan to kick personal cars out of the city center. On Spanish radio network Cadena Ser, she confirmed that Madrid’s main avenue, the Gran Vía, will only allow access to bikes, buses, and taxis before she leaves office in May 2019. It’s part of a larger effort to […]
