Barcelona’s Superblocks: Change the Grid, Change Your Neighborhood
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Without dangerous, noisy car traffic overrunning the streets, superblocks are full of life.
Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Car-Free Streets
Don’t Forget That “Summer Streets” Starts Saturday
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Oh, but wouldn't it be great if Manhattan was always car-free?
Madrid Moves to Boot Car Traffic Out of Its City Center
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A major city center without cars? Madrid is going to come close sometime in the next year, says the administration of Mayor Manuela Carmena.
In Its Third Year, Car-Free Day Isn’t Getting Any Bigger
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Car-Free Day is a fine event that suffers from being something of a political orphan. Mayor de Blasio has never embraced it and made it his own, and without mayoral backing it hasn't attained the scale of more notable car-free events around the world.
Saturday: Ride for Car-Free Central Park
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A car-free Central Park is a popular cause, and advocates have made a lot of progress, but the job's not done yet. Below 72nd Street, car traffic still roars on the West Drive and Terrace Drive on weekdays from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. The Center/East Drive between 6th Avenue and Park South and East 72nd Street is a motor vehicle shortcut on weekdays from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
It Only Takes a Few Well-Placed Bollards to Make a Midtown Block Safe From Vehicular Assault
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It would be a terrible mistake to replace clumsy short-term security theater with clumsy permanent security theater.