Regarding reducing emissions from car traffic, subsidies and other incentives are often advocated to get more people to switch to electric cars.
However, that as many people as possible switch to electric cars will not be enough to achieve the environmental goals, the traffic researcher believes To Koglin at Lund University in an interview with SVT. In order to overcome the emissions in the cities, it is instead necessary to make life difficult for motorists.
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Want to make driving difficult
In order to get rid of the emissions, we have to rethink the way our cities are structured, says the researcher.
– The more we facilitate car traffic, the more people will use the car. We have built this system and we have to rebuild, says Till Koglin to SVT.
According to the researcher, one should look at ways to limit car traffic, for example through congestion charges, restrictions on parking spaces and the introduction of environmental zones.
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Want to reduce the speed to 20 km/h
Till Koglin also thinks that the speed limit in the cities should be lowered, and states 20 km/h as a reasonable speed.
Then no special infrastructure for bicycles is needed, he believes, which is why you can then freely mix public transport and bicycle traffic, while limiting motoring.
Koglin also believes that we must stop building large shopping centers and “external establishments” outside the city centers.
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Already done in several cities
Koglin also points out that a number of cities elsewhere in Europe have already been rebuilt to be less suitable for car traffic.
He mentions that the Belgian port city of Ghent is almost car-free, and that in Paris, car traffic has been greatly reduced in the central parts of the city. In Paris, the speed limit is 30 km/h in the central parts of the city.
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