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Old Posted Nov 23, 2019, 6:03 PM
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Barcelona Is Taking Radical Steps To Ban Cars

Barcelona Is Taking Radical Steps To Ban Cars:
By Stephen Burgen
11/23/2019 08:00 am ET

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BARCELONA — When city officials decided they had to act to reduce unacceptably high levels of noise and air pollution, they reached an inescapable conclusion: Get rid of the cars.

One of the key proposals, first put forward in the 1980s, is now becoming a reality: the so-called superblocks.

Much of Barcelona is built on a grid system. What the superblock scheme does is group together nine city blocks and close them to through-traffic with plant pots and benches, introduce cycle lanes, play areas and green spaces and replace many of the parking spaces with seating areas. While cars aren’t banned, the superblocks are car-unfriendly.
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Old Posted Nov 24, 2019, 8:53 AM
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Tokyo was built in a similar way. Although not because they wanted to reduce the usage of cars but because that is the way the ancient city was built. With many back alleys that you couldn’t fit a car through.
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Old Posted Nov 24, 2019, 1:50 PM
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In some places London is effectively built this way too. The small roads aren’t technically closed to traffic, but it’s not heavy because only an experienced black cab driver generally winds through them, whereas most traffic sticks to main roads.

That cycle heatmap that someone posted in another thread sort of illustrates the point:
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