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Cities around the world that are reducing car access

MJohnston · 2018-10-25 15:29:15

I thought this would be an interesting thread to track the efforts of various cities to reduce the amount of car access, and thereby improve either the public realm, transport infrastructure, or just the local environment. Today Paris won a court case which will allow them to proceed with banning cars from the banks of the…

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#3992 19-11-2025 10:52AM

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I was just going to say multimodal is kind of the low hanging fruit of city transport everywhere and probably what we should try and achieve. P&R's outside the city, mass transit into the city and all sustainable modes prioritised within the city itself. Maybe congestion charges and higher city centre parking charges are needed as part of that, but I'd definitely be inclined to push the price of on-street parking way up because that generates so much traffic.

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