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Old 04-12-2007
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Re: Should cars be banned from inner parts of large European cities?

You know they do many scandalous things in Vienna when it comes to the issue to build cities for humans, not for investors, but there are some nice and good projects as well.

One of those good projects is the biking quarter. In a centre near development area (former railway station for goods that is now transformed into a new quarter within the next decade(s)) there are already fix plans to build a bunch of new residential complexes with a very intersting concept. They are dedicated to people who prefer the bike as their mean mean of transportation. Therefore a whole lot of parking lots can be safed and transformed in more green space. And there will also be a car sharing centre when a car should be needed once in a while eg for transporting bulky or heavier goods.

It seems this project qets quite much positive feedback and will not have much problems to find the people who want to live there.
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