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Should Cities Ban Cars?
A growing number of cities are turning car lanes into plazas, bike paths and bus corridors. Some call it the biggest quality of life win in a generation. Others call it a war on the people who can least afford the alternatives. Here are the strongest versions of both cases. Then it is your turn.


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For. Removing cars cuts road deaths, noise and air pollution overnight and hands the street back to people, shops and children.
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Against. Bans hit the poor, the disabled and shift workers hardest, the people with no transit option and no real choice.


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For. Almost every city that pedestrianised its core saw foot traffic and local spending rise, not fall, within two years.
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Against. Displaced traffic does not vanish. It floods the surrounding neighbourhoods that have the least political power.


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A street is the most valuable public space a city owns. We gave almost all of it to storage for private machines.
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Tell a nurse on a night shift to take a bike in the rain and you will learn who these plans were really designed for.


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Where do you actually stand?
Ban cars from city centres now
Reduce gradually with better transit first
Only in dense cores, never the suburbs
Leave the streets as they are

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