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by svendbt
2698 days ago
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I live in Oslo. Calling it car-free is a stretch. The city council have done a great deal of improvements - increased frequency of public transport, city bikes, most parking spaces in the inner city are removed (still plenty of private parking garages), paid roadside parking per hour in outer city districts (only residents can park long term) and a $5-$8 toll road around the city. They have also opened up the seaside to the public - you can walk along the sea for from one side of town to the other for hours. This has definitely made for a much more lively city, but it comes with a hidden cost that is not so easily visible - gentrification. The lively city with its hundreds of new bars and restaurants are attracting young, educated people, while the difficulties of owning a car drives away the families that need their car to visit their grandparents, go to IKEA, drive to kindergarten on the other side of town etc. Sure, it's possible to use public transport, but everyone who has has small kids know that you do not want to spend an hour to get home with hungry kids. We (family with two small kids) moved 5 miles out and get the best of both worlds instead. I would never live downtown though. |
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This article is a HUGE lie. Our city center not car free, not even almost.
I don't think Oslo is any more car free than it was 10 years ago. And roads that are made car free don't become traffic free. We still allow busses, trams, lorries and taxis on all the recently made "car-free" roads.
Oslo is about as car free as any other decent european city.