[gotstad]

That's neither feasible nor required. Copenhagen still has cars in city centre - personally I drive my bike 95% of the time, but sometimes I need to use my car. However, I much prefer my bike because it's faster, less troublesome, infrastructure is great and the exercise helps.

Create incentives for biking, but don't outlaw cars.

[ninesnines]

I agree with you, I don't think we should ban cars, however making it very difficult to have cars in the city would help! I bike in Copenhagen almost 100% of the time, and its actually so much more difficult to get around by car.

I do think cars should be banned in downtown-downtown though or at least have extremely harsh reinforcement: there is no reason for the rich businessman to be driving his Porsche at 120 km/h down a back road near where everyone cycles.

[Beltalowda]

> there is no reason for the rich businessman to be driving his Porsche at 120 km/h down a back road near where everyone cycles.

In my experience it's not the "rich businessman" but the "boy racer" with his Audi or VW Golf that are the most common problem.

[scoofy]

The best way to do this is create quadrants in cities that have one-way in and out for automobiles, but public transit, bikes and pedestrians can move freely between.

In this way, cars can use the streets if they are indeed going to that area, but cannot move through the areas as a means to avoid roads meant to carry vehicles across town.

The city that exemplifies this is Groningen, Netherlands, and the superblock concept in Barcelona.