Tag: carfree
Ånässkolan is the first school in Gothenburg to get a car-free zone
On Thursday, the first car-free zone was inaugurated at a Gothenburg school. The zone is part of the red-green government’s pilot project to make it safer for children to cycle…
Amersfoort blames fine rain on navigation and ‘getting used to a car-free city center’
Amersfoort – The Amersfoort municipal council thinks that many motorists had to get used to the car-free city center last year. It is one of the explanations given by the…
How Toulouse, Strasbourg or Montpellier are preparing for the “bomb” of polluting car-free zones
It is a measure that each major metropolis adapts in its own way. Since Paris, the first municipality to have installed it in 2015, 12 other large cities have moved…
Car-free on weekends after the mess on Sveavägen: “They use the street as a racetrack”
– Sveavägen is a parade street and should be characterized to a greater degree by people’s life, rather than engine noise, says the newly appointed traffic councilor Lars Strömgren (MP).…
Utrecht city center gets more pedestrian area and car-free streets
Pedestrian zone getting bigger The pedestrian zone has been expanded several times in recent years and now includes a large number of streets in the city center. The latest expansion…
Free coffee, active transportation hot topics for Stratford’s next Car-Free Friday
News Local News Stratford’s downtown business association is offering more than one reason to consider walking, cycling or scooting in the city’s core later this week. Kim Griffiths (left), the…
Oudewater closes bridge in summer to make center car-free
The municipality previously conducted trial closures, a survey showed that not everyone was in favor of the closure. Alderman Walther Kok: “As a college, we think it is more important…