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Oslo Puts Up a Stop Sign

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday December 26 2018, @04:15PM   Printer-friendly
from the whoa-nellie dept.

upstart writes:

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Oslo Puts Up a Stop Sign

If you drive a car into the city center of Oslo next month, you shouldn't plan on staying long: There won't be any parking spots.

The Norwegian capital is in the process of eliminating the remaining 700 street parking spots in its city center by the end of 2018 as part of its plan to turn the area into a car-free zone.

"We're doing this to give the streets back to the people," Hanna Elise Marcussen, Oslo's vice mayor for urban development, said during a recent phone interview. "And of course, it's environmentally friendly." (The Scandinavian country, recently recognized as one of the world's most ecologically progressive nations, has plans to become carbon neutral by 2030 and halt the sale of fossil fuel cars by 2025.)

And it's not just Oslo that is turning away drivers. Popular tourist destinations across the globe are removing cars from heavily trafficked areas to reduce congestion, cut down on pollution, and make streets more welcoming to bikers and pedestrians.

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 26 2018, @07:14PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 26 2018, @07:14PM (#778660)

    As someone who actually does have medical issues that make walking difficult, I assure you I am not about to start using a wheelchair one moment earlier than I absolutely have to. It's probable that I will end up in one in time as I age, but I will forestall that event as long as possible.

    So instead of using a wheelchair to get to some city center that won't let me use a car to get as close as possible to my destination, I simply won't go at all. Congrats, now all you normal people won't have to look at very many of us handicapped people in your glorious new pedestrian paradise.

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 26 2018, @07:19PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 26 2018, @07:19PM (#778662)

    Awesome. None of us wanted to see your sagging, wrinkled baby-boomer ass anyway.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 26 2018, @08:59PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 26 2018, @08:59PM (#778707)

    That's wise, there's a reason why they still sell canes and walkers. It's less than ideal to use those, but it is far better than moving directly to a wheelchair or scooter.

    • (Score: 1) by NateMich on Thursday December 27 2018, @01:59AM

      by NateMich (6662) on Thursday December 27 2018, @01:59AM (#778838)

      That's wise, there's a reason why they still sell canes and walkers. It's less than ideal to use those, but it is far better than moving directly to a wheelchair or scooter.

      You're suggesting a cane or walker to someone as a means to get around an entire city?

      No, this entire idea will just lead to people never going to that city, which is probably what the people proposing these ideas actually want anyway.