Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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A Car-Free Town

Germany is doing something radical...
Auto-Ban: German Town Goes Car-Free
Tony Paterson, The Independent UK: "The Germans may have given the world the Audi and the autobahn, but they have banished everything with four wheels and an engine from the streets of Vauban - a model brave new world of a community in the country's south-west, next to the borders with Switzerland and France."

I hope this works out for them.
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  • 4 comments
green_knight

green_knight

June 27 2009, 11:04:53 UTC 12 years ago

Of course it'll work out. It's the second suburb of Freiburg that has adopted such a policy - if the first one hadn't, they would have scaled back their plans. Freiburg is Germany's eco capital, proudly investing in alternative energies and alternative transport; it's also a university town and attracts a lot of people interested in alternative lifestyles; and they've got the infrastructure - including a superb tram system, cycleways and flexicars - in place to make it feasible.

I'd love to see what they've done with the place. I used to ride there - literally on the grounds of the baracks, the stable was the old army stable, and we used to take the horses for a meander around the rest of the place once the French army had moved out.
ysabetwordsmith

Wow!

ysabetwordsmith

June 27 2009, 15:41:22 UTC 12 years ago

Thank you for sharing all this. It adds so much to the story. I love having an audience with such wide experience. I can talk about darn near anything here and folks will add cool things like this.
wyld_dandelyon

wyld_dandelyon

June 27 2009, 16:50:39 UTC 12 years ago

Hi, Elizabeth Barrette of GaiaTribe sent me!

It has seemed like I see your meet and greet meme late on Sunday since you started it; it's quite a surprise for me to be comment No. 1 this morning. (-:
ysabetwordsmith

Yay!

ysabetwordsmith

June 28 2009, 04:13:47 UTC 12 years ago

I'm glad you like the Weekend Meet-n-Greet meme. I adopted that from another blogger as a way of encouraging people to browse around each other's blogs. I have been slating it for Saturday but it gets shifted to Sunday a lot. This time it stayed on Saturday.