| Comment | I didn't say free of cars.
There might well be a small zone in the very core of the city centre that is effectively free from cars. But this will be about 500-750m across at most. Cars will be able to navigate streets everywhere else, even if they're not able to criss cross this zone in the city centre core itself.
Again, as I said to someone else, you're painting it as a black and white, one Vs the other thing, when the truth is what's being planned is somewhere in the middle: continuing to allow access by private vehicles (even encouraging and nudging people to park their cars in different places, still close to the centre), but at the same time helping other modes of transit, whether bus, foot or bike, become more viable.
In a world where cars are still welcome in and around the city centre, you absolutely need to deal with the market warping effects of free parking at out of town sites around the city's periphery. |
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