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I spent some time in Pontevedra Spain a few years ago, a city that has to a large extent gotten rid of cars. With some minor issues mostly around commercial tra

I spent some time in Pontevedra Spain a few years ago, a city that has to a large extent gotten rid of cars. With some minor issues mostly around commercial traffic for goods and businesses, people overwhelmingly seemed to agree that it was a success. Business was up, local stores, restaurants and so on were doing much better, people were moving to the place again, and so on. I hope more cities in Europe start similar initiatives, we have the good fortune that our cities are older than the car.

dopidopHN 5y ago
> we have the good fortune that our cities are older than the car. That’s really key. The layout of US cities make no sense without cars.
- vba616 5y ago
  This is a popular meme, but it can't possibly be true that (most) US cities have been founded since the automobile was invented. I live in a northeastern US city that has streets going back to the 1600s. The oldest (continuously inhabited) city in the US was founded in the 1500s. Here is a list that supposedly has founding dates of various cities and it looks like hundreds listed in the US are before 1885; less than a dozen after: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_the_Americas_by_year_of_foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_the_Americas...
  - CheezeIt 5y ago
    The funny thing about many old U.S. cities is that they were designed up-front to have wide streets.