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Thursday, 21 January, 2010
Greenlight for a car-free Geneva
By a 2 to 1 majority, the Geneva City Council voted Tuesday to approve a Green Party initiative to close 200 roads in the city center to automobiles. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s a done deal—and the initiative is likely to face stiff opposition, notably from the local business sector. WRS’s Conor Lennon spoke to the Green Party’s Fabienne Fischer to find out more about her party’s surprise win:
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Wonderful idea! It’s lately been shown, when the matter has actually been studied, that improving streets by emphasizing pedestrian and bicycle travel actually results in more income for most businesses. An article summarizing this (it emphasizes cycling, but the results are nearly the same for pedestrian travel) is at http://bicyclefixation.com/bikebucks.html, with links studies.
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