Israel's second-largest city of Tel Aviv, a female cyclist walking through the downtown area.

"No tire City" is a wonderful package of "car-free city". Whether it is "car-free" or "non-tire", and wrestling game between the urban public space and the private sector never stops.

London city center began to collect "congestion charge", and Hamburg to prepare the implementation of "car-free plan", and opened a bicycle in Copenhagen highway, but also launched a pilot in the city, surrounded by countryside and the spread of "urban rural "type" destroy cars tough fight. "

European cities busy, busy main road in the eradication of the car, get rid of those busy exhaust very noses of the street.

The future of Europe will not be around "car-free city"? Entirely possible. However, compared with the reference to "car-free city," this little innovative, European cities is clearly prefer the "Guardian" recently used that label: No Tire City (tyre-free city).

"No tire City" is the perfect package of "car-free city". If the "car-free city" shows the city on a private trip and try to reconcile the exploration of public transport, then the "non-tire cities" show the city is the rejection of the attitude of the vehicle.

Of course, a "non-tire city," the only exception to this is under the "public transport" system bus. Because in European cities, all of the buses are not seen as a vehicle tire, they explained: "Look, is not that our feet Well!"

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2014, London, England, on the road rush hour. London 2020 plans to ban diesel vehicles into the city.

"Car-free city, no tire city, these are just a vision in my mind of that year. Today, the dream into a reality."

Environmental pollution, the development of civic consciousness and the rise of technology, so that "car-free city" "No tire city" concept in Europe in recent years, the city fire up.

(Michael Sivak) study on car use and environmental impact, American car ratio in 2008 reached the highest values, numbers continued to decline in the last 10 years, according to Professor of the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, Xi Wake.

Throughout the past 10 years, the city general trend of long-haul travel, aircraft load is increasing, load the car on the decline; As for short-distance travel mode in the city, the proportion of car trips are also not dominant.

Hamburg, Germany in Western Europe "no tire city" a typical representative. By 2015, the City of Hamburg officially announced that it will implement the "no tire Plan" in Hamburg in the next two decades, with the city covering 40% of "green network" of existing urban roads interconnected development, the ultimate goal is to make The public can not help the car on the line over the whole of Hamburg.

On the basis of public transport above, under the assistance of the green network, Hamburg is a vision can walk, bike way east-west, north-south traffic "No tire city."

Blocking traffic jam afraid, European cities are busy to destroy cars

Hamburg, Germany, the center of heavy traffic.

Western Europe, Germany, the Nordic Copenhagen. Denmark levy of up to 180% of the sales tax on new vehicles, such high taxes make Danes to buy a car this thing could not get much interest.

Denmark is the famous "kingdom of bicycles", a motorway in Copenhagen popularity is not high, but a "bicycle freeway" is "star of the road." This article from Copenhagen to Albert Sloan City Expressway total length of 22 kilometers, allowing only bicycles.

The "non-tire" to achieve the ultimate city in Spain Pontevedra (Pontevedra), it is the only urban area in the world so far there are no car-free city. In fact, starting in 2010, where the public was told that prohibit driving in the city center, in the suburbs must also speed limit within 30 yards Department of Transportation.

Nearly seven years, people here became accustomed to go by subway, bicycle and pedestrian ways. Establish "the world's first tire-free city", inseparable from Ponte Vedra Mayor Miguel perennial efforts and appeals. He is allegedly being irritated by traffic noise, exhaust pollution, traffic accidents and traffic congestion status quo, then set the clapper of the year "no tire program."

"Car-free city, no tire city, these are just a vision in my mind of that year. Today, the dream into a reality." Miguel said.

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Spain Pontevedra, people active in the town square.

"Car City" "No tire City" visionary or utopian concept of "no parking City" ...... cities?

Oslo can be described as the vanguard shouted "No tire City" slogan.

Oslo city council in 2015, announced in 2019, a total ban on private cars entering the Oslo city center.

In this regard, Oslo slogan is: to create a zero-city private car, a pedestrian and bicycle city, a city by the decision of the legs, a "can not tolerate the tires" of the city. The reason for this is a response to global climate change, while also providing a sample of urban public space to expand to other cities.

"In addition to public buses, I do not want to see any tire and exhaust in the city." This also means that, since 2019, Oslo will become Europe's first implementation of a comprehensive and permanent injunction car capital city.

"Our goal is to allow those who have driving a car no longer have such a concept: the streets are designed for the car, street car is a paradise." Oslo deputy mayor in charge of environmental and traffic Borg said.

Blocking traffic jam afraid, European cities are busy to destroy cars

Oslo City Hall announced in September 2015, it will be a total ban on private cars entering the city center by 2019.

"City center car ban," the idea of ​​the good, in reality, has encountered many obstacles.

Who lives in downtown Oslo Neil Sundberg recently received a note from the government, says "Oslo city center parking lot about to disappear, the central city will be built bike lanes." After confirming neighbors also received the same note, Neil incredible that the Government's decision.

"We are not against bike lanes, but the abolition of special vehicle parking lot, which sounds absolutely ridiculous." Neil Oslo has become a "parking lot against the abolition movement", he called on the municipal authorities to stop this crazy plan . "Bicycle replace the car? It is too early to Oslo!"

Neil may be right. According to the statistics department of transportation in Oslo, Oslo cycling rate of only 8.3%, down about 3% in winter, while in 2025 the municipal authorities want to put this figure increased to 25%.

"I was forced to build a confrontation in motor vehicles 'Berlin Wall'." A member of the Conservative Party of Norway Oslo commented, "No tire city" planning.

Blocking traffic jam afraid, European cities are busy to destroy cars

Oslo, Norway, people sitting in the river.

But Oslo "no tire plan" will not radically implement, but take a gradual approach to implement. Deputy Mayor Borg as described, the central city of Oslo, at this stage not in a hurry comprehensive ban cars, but the first transformation of the city's 650 car park - they will become a playground or cultural sites, this is "no plan tires "the first stage.

The second phase will be on the sidewalk in downtown Full widened. Some municipal departments will be open exclusively for vehicle passage, but the number is very limited. Meanwhile, 40 miles of cycle paths will spread in the center of the official. The plan will be fully implemented in 2018.

"Oslo ultimate goal of course is to ban cars, cut tires, Oslo will become the city has a huge share of public space." Borg said.

"Car City" "No tire City" "No Parking City" ...... between these urban public spaces and private sector wrestling urban planning, is a happy vision, or flow in the utopian idea of ​​the paper? Time will prove everything.