Good. Where I live (town of around 250k inhabitants), cars were banned from the main shopping street in the city center in the 1970s. It was an extremely contr

Good. Where I live (town of around 250k inhabitants), cars were banned from the main shopping street in the city center in the 1970s. It was an extremely controversial decision. Today it is one of top 15 most expensive shopping streets in Germany and the 9th most visited shopping street [0]. If anyone would propose to again allow cars there, there would be an outcry from the public and the businesses. Before: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/Kreuzung_am_Bertoldsbrunnen_an_einem_SSV_Samstag.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/Kreuzung... After: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/2017-05-02_Altstadt_%28Freiburg_im_Breisgau%29_18.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/2017-05-... They slowly extended car-free zones during the 80s and 90es. Five years ago, they closed down another major 4-lane street and made it a pedestrian or reduced traffic zone, which was also (again) hugely unpopular, but is now seen as a big success (despite minor controversies which have nothing to do with banning cars) [1]. Before: https://deacademic.com/pictures/dewiki/85/UB_Freiburg.jpg https://deacademic.com/pictures/dewiki/85/UB_Freiburg.jpg After: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/Werthmannstra%C3%9Fe_%28Freiburg_im_Breisgau%29_jm57877.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/Werthman... (the black building replaced the abhorrent building in the previous picture) [0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiser-Joseph-Stra%C3%9Fe_(Freiburg_im_Breisgau) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiser-Joseph-Stra%C3%9Fe_(Fre... [1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platz_der_Alten_Synagoge_(Freiburg_im_Breisgau) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platz_der_Alten_Synagoge_(Frei...