It's the same story everytime a pedestrian zone is introduced in some town in Austria. Shop owners complain loudly that they'll lose customers, but as soon as c

It's the same story everytime a pedestrian zone is introduced in some town in Austria. Shop owners complain loudly that they'll lose customers, but as soon as cars are banned pedestrian traffic explodes, revenue increases, and a lively city center emerges. Yet it takes years (often decades) of discussion for a single road to become a pedestrian zone, because all those people fail to see how benefitial pedestrian zones have been every time that they were introduced. I don't even think it's only because people love their cars, I think it's just a general fear of change.