Life in the Spanish city that banned cars

Re:Life in the Spanish city that banned cars by wott on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @11:23AM (#18016051)

> Take the Boulevard Périphérique around Paris for instance: a nuisance for people living nearby, often gridlocked, super dangerous and atrociously ugly. People realized that this approach wasn't sustainable and now more and more work is done to undo it, that's a good thing IMO.

Do not worry, we still go on building ring roads and bypasses around cities. Either where there were not yet any, or farther from the centre and the existing ones where there are already existing ones.

- But this time, they will be enough far away from the city, and they will make traffic jam disappear, we promise.

- Yeah, that's what you said 40 years ago about the first ones, and then urbanisation exploded around them and they quickly got swallowed by the city and its suburbs...

Bus yes, it is true that the fad of building expressways ending right inside city centres has stopped quite a long time ago.

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Re:Life in the Spanish city that banned cars by etiennemarcel on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @12:07PM (#18016410)

What Paris could have looked like if Pompidou had his way in the 70s: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_autoroutier_pour_Paris

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