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Old June 17th, 2016, 07:07 AM posted to rec.travel.europe
Paul Aubrin
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Default Europe Going Car-Free

On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 17:34:29 -0700, poldy wrote:

On 6/16/16 5:52 AM, Martin P wrote:
On 16 Jun 2016 11:44:48 GMT, Paul Aubrin wrote:

On Sat, 14 May 2016 17:06:59 -0700, Snoopy1975ify wrote:

All European cities will be car-free within the next decade or so.
Paris and Oslo are among the cities that are doing this. South
American and Asia are doing the same thing. We're entering a new
car-free age in those places.

At the end of the 19th century municipalities had a big problem. They
didn't know how to manage the increasing volumes of the horse manure
produced by delivery carts which made cities unsustainable.


The best way to solve Europe Going Car-Free manure is to use a kill
file or just ignore it.
--
Martin in N Staffordshire


Supposedly diesel pollution in cities like Paris is pretty bad.


The quality of air improved, but pollution norms became stricter.
From 2002 to 2012 pollution levels from nitrogen oxides (NOx) decreased
by 30% in Paris, pollution from PM10 particles decreased by 35%,
pollution from PM2.5 particles decreased by 40%.

Some talk that maybe they ban them from city centers in favor of
electric vehicles. VW is forecasting that by 2025, electric cars will
make up 20-25% of sales, or 2-3 million cars.