If you’ve been lucky enough to visit Central Stockholm you know that this is a walkable and scenic city where in the summer people can go for a swim on their lunch hour from one of many docks jutting into the clean harbor water or at tiny but delightful sandy bays in parks that border the water.
But the city will get even nicer in a couple of years when gasoline and diesel cars will be banned in “a 20-block area of shops, pedestrian walkways and a few homes in order to curb pollution, reduce noise and encourage use of electric vehicles.” Perhaps more importantly than the effect on Stockholm itself is the precedent being set by this proclamation which “will be the first for a European capital.”
Let’s hope this is just the beginning and that cities around the world will take note and follow suit.