This city bans cars every Sunday—and people love it

[DieselnDust]

I like the concept. Intercity journeys should be uncontrolled train/car/truck/whatever but inner city journeys should be pollutant and congestion free so bikes/ebikes and some public transport. Over here in Denmark there are tons of "walking streets" where cars are permanently banned and all one way streets still have bicycle lanes on both sides for two way bicycles traffic.

 

 

Many of the Dutch cities are also pollution free zones. No cars or busses allowed unless you have a special permit (generally granted if you life within the zone, but you pay a fortune for parking). 

Sadly we're at the the political will stage yet unless there's a boot load of cash in a BMW offered to a politician

[Eldron]

Many of the Dutch cities are also pollution free zones. No cars or busses allowed unless you have a special permit (generally granted if you life within the zone, but you pay a fortune for parking).

Sadly we're at the the political will stage yet unless there's a boot load of cash in a BMW offered to a politician

Ahh politics. Such a experience based thing. In SA I didn't trust a single politician. Over here they're pretty useful - and reasonable.

 

Overall I think the world is moving towards a more "people" based lifestyle which is a good thing.

[Zatopek]

Bogotá, ColombiaIt’s like falling in love all over again; every Sunday without fail, and holidays too, the inhabitants of the car-choked, noise-filled, stressed-out city of Bogotá, 8,660 feet up in the thin air of the Andes, get to feel that the city belongs to them, and not to the 1,600,000 suicidal private cars, 50,000 homicidal taxis, nine thousand gasping buses, and some half-million demented motorcycles that otherwise pack into the buzzing capital of Colombia.

 

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/03/bogota-colombia-ciclovia-bans-cars-on-roads-each-sunday/?cmpid=org=ngp::mc=crm-email::src=ngp::cmp=editorial::add=sunstills_20190407::rid=15277349

Spend a week in the city late last year - it is an awesome sight. Loads of food stalls along the 'routes' and thousands of people using it - 95% on low budget bikes... basically people will grab anything with two wheels available and enjoy the day.

 

I had no issues finding a Grab and navigated with that around the routes. Did not had time to cycle myself

[lechatnoir]

Realistically they could close Beach road over the weekend from Waterfront to Bantry Bay without upsetting anybody. 

 

you know how many entitled people live there? they'll lose their collective sh!t

[Pure Savage]

This morning with no wind the smog was rather thick sitting in the school traffic. People don’t understand that they are killing themselves, cars don’t clean the carbon monoxide out of the air via the A/C.

[DJR]

This morning with no wind the smog was rather thick sitting in the school traffic. People don’t understand that they are killing themselves, cars don’t clean the carbon monoxide out of the air via the A/C.

From where I live, on any quietish morning, it is scary to see how thick a brown haze covers the whole of the flats. It must affect us in so many negative ways and most people never even wonder why they have sinus problems, allergies, eye and lung irritations on a fairly permanent basis.

[Andrew_Smith]

This morning with no wind the smog was rather thick sitting in the school traffic. People don’t understand that they are killing themselves, cars don’t clean the carbon monoxide out of the air via the A/C.

The petrol price must just sky rocket so that they will be forced to use alternative transport methods (e.g. bike to work).

 

That being said, we really need to work on our public transport. We are lacking miles behind the other countries.

 

But yeah, we had a similar discussion about this at our local coffee shop and the problem is we us human beings, we will only change our ways when the issue is upon us...

[Pure Savage]

The petrol price must just sky rocket so that they will be forced to use alternative transport methods (e.g. bike to work).

 

That being said, we really need to work on our public transport. We are lacking miles behind the other countries.

 

But yeah, we had a similar discussion about this at our local coffee shop and the problem is we us human beings, we will only change our ways when the issue is upon us...

I am hoping the petrol price goes up to 24/25 a liter. Fuel is still to cheap, this will force people to ride bikes, super markets will start sourcing local products. It’s a win win win.

[Eugéne Alberts]

there's always a thorn among the roses

Some people will have a problem for every solution.