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Paris Is Giving 50 Percent of Its Legendary Roundabouts Back to People

When you think of Paris, you probably think of narrow, tree-lined streets. But consider some of its most famous monuments: They’re ringed by several lanes of busy vehicular traffic. Now the city is promising at least half of that space will go to pedestrians instead of cars. Seven sites in total are getting people-friendly makeovers,…

Tech News Alissa Walker

Mexico City’s Doubling Down on its Car Ban to Clear Smoggy Skies

A plan to restrict private vehicles from Mexico City’s downtown hasn’t done enough to reduce air pollution, so the city is now asking twice as many cars to stay off the roads. As a sprawling city at a soaring altitude, Mexico City is prone to intense smog because it’s surrounded by mountains, which trap particulate…

Tech News Alissa Walker

Building Highways Through Cities Was a Huge Mistake—But We Can Fix It

The US interstate highway system was once a marvel of modern engineering, allowing the movement of goods and ideas that ushered in an era of unprecedented prosperity. But when those highways reached the cities they connected, they plowed through the lowest-income areas, physically dividing neighborhoods and financially devastating communities. A new initiative announced by US…

Tech News Alissa Walker

Look How Much Better a City Can Be When It Designs for People Not Cars

It’s a common argument when a city wants to take away space for cars: “This isn’t Amsterdam.” But guess what, Amsterdam—where half the traffic movement in the city center is by bike—wasn’t always Amsterdam, either. The image above serves as proof that better street design can improve daily life, not just for people on bikes,…

Tech News Alissa Walker

Smartphones Don’t Kill Pedestrians, Cars Do

Every few months we get to read the same misinformed story about “distracted walking”—how pedestrians are too busy looking at their phones to safely walk across the street. But sidewalk Facebook updates aren’t the real problem here. The latest story in the narrative that puts walkers at fault for getting killed by cars is an…

Tech News Alissa Walker

Delhi’s Car Ban Experiment Didn’t Improve Air Quality That Much, But it Should Still Be Permanent

Earlier this year Delhi’s air pollution was so bad that the government temporarily banned half its cars from streets. The policymaker who came up with the idea says the ban should be 365 days a year—but not because it improved air quality all that much. The “odd/even” scheme allowed drivers to use their cars every…

Tech News Alissa Walker

Ford Is Finally Thinking Beyond Cars

Cars were a great idea until they started to destroy civilization. Now the inventor of that technology is busy working on the next big transportation idea, one that might not kill us all. Yes, the American automaker is spending big bucks to help you get around—even if it’s not in a Ford. In addition to…

Tech News Alissa Walker

Madrid Bans Cars, Plans Plants

Cities have been kicking out cars to curb pollution and boost the well-being of their residents. But Madrid has proposed something even smarter. It’s not only banning cars from its downtown, it’s adding more green space. This is an important part of the equation that many cities don’t get right. In 2014, Madrid announced a…

Climate Change Alissa Walker

Delhi Still Chokes on Smog Despite Banning Half Its Cars

On January 1st, Delhi enacted a two-week pilot project allowing private cars on the roads only on alternate days in order to reduce pollution. As the experiment comes to a close, the city is still choking on smog. The scheme saw the city allow private cars use the roads based on the last digit of…

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Read This Before You Consider Having Gas Delivered to Your Car By an App

Driving your car can only destroy the planet at the typical standard planet-destroying rate. If you’d like to accelerate the demise of the Earth, there’s an app for that: Why not use extra fossil fuels to deliver fossil fuels to your fossil fuel-guzzling vehicle? Yes, there are apps—several of them now, in fact—where you can…

Climate Change Alissa Walker

This Amphibious Lambo Is the Official Mascot of El Niño

The record-breaking El Niño-fueled storms that swept through California the past two days brought never-before-seen phenomena to our doors: Floating trash cans, tornado warnings, more floating trash cans. But none of these were more symbolic of our struggle with the wicked weather pattern than this Lamborghini that dared to drive where SUVs would not tread.…

Tech News Alissa Walker

Now India’s Airpocalypse Is So Bad, It’s Banning Half the Cars in Delhi

Last week Milan became the latest city to banish cars from streets to curb its horrible smog. On January 1, Delhi joined the club with its own vehicle restrictions, but the challenge before the chronically polluted Indian city is much much greater. Will a every-other-day ban on cars be any help? After recording some of…

Tech News Alissa Walker

Milan Bans Cars to Combat Horrible Smog

Beijing and Delhi are both planning major initiatives to kick cars off their streets, at least part of the time. Now even cities that aren’t famous for their pollution are taking drastic measures to clean up their air. Today, Milan’s streets are filled with bikes and pedestrians as part of three-day car ban. Milan is…

Climate Change Alissa Walker

How an Affluent Neighborhood Banished Private Cars for a Month

Last week, Paris shooed cars from its downtown for a single photogenic day. Now a neighborhood in Johannesburg, South Africa is one-upping that car-free day with a celebration that kicks cars off the street for the entire month of October. As part of theEcoMobility World Festival, which started today, cars have been banished from Sandton,…

Tech News Alissa Walker

Paris Is Giving 50 Percent of Its Legendary Roundabouts Back to People

Mexico City’s Doubling Down on its Car Ban to Clear Smoggy Skies

Building Highways Through Cities Was a Huge Mistake—But We Can Fix It

Look How Much Better a City Can Be When It Designs for People Not Cars

Smartphones Don’t Kill Pedestrians, Cars Do

Delhi’s Car Ban Experiment Didn’t Improve Air Quality That Much, But it Should Still Be Permanent

Ford Is Finally Thinking Beyond Cars

Madrid Bans Cars, Plans Plants

Delhi Still Chokes on Smog Despite Banning Half Its Cars

Read This Before You Consider Having Gas Delivered to Your Car By an App

This Amphibious Lambo Is the Official Mascot of El Niño

Now India’s Airpocalypse Is So Bad, It’s Banning Half the Cars in Delhi

Milan Bans Cars to Combat Horrible Smog

How an Affluent Neighborhood Banished Private Cars for a Month

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