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by slakero 5297 days ago
About pollution, what about troleys, trams and S-bahns then? Take a look at this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zurich_model And take Basel as a small city(~170k population) with a very good public transportation system.

The models are already out there and working nicely, other cities just have to emulate them.

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> The models are already out there and working nicely, other cities just have to emulate them.

That's OK if you're starting from scratch, but very few new city-scale developments are started from a clean sheet, at least here in the UK. I don't think many people would look kindly on demolishing historic city centres just to build new tramways or light rail...