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Amsterdam's head of transport has announced plans to ban petrol and diesel cars in the city by 2030.
The clean air action plan aims to make the Dutch capital a "world leader in emission-free transport".
Transport chief Sharon Dijksma said residents "live a year less on average due to dirty air" and that the plan should "prolong the health of the average Amsterdammer by three months."
But the plan has already incited strong reactions in the Netherlands with one motoring organisation branding it "bizarre" and wondering how normal people would afford electric cars.
The plan, which would be applied 20 years before the Paris Agreement aims to slash greenhouse gas emissions, would require up to 23,000 electric charging points by 2025. The city currently has 3,000.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Tuesday May 07 2019, @06:02PM
As you can travel throughout most of Europe without even being checked at national borders it wouldn't make sense to have limits on travel. Most car insurance in Europe covers you for the whole of Europe, including the extra areas which are not part of the free travel Schengen Agreement, for example UK and Ireland. [wikipedia.org]
Since 2016 some countries have re-imposed border controls in an effort to check migrant movement, but other aspects of the agreement remain as before.