Milan to ban cars from city centre as early as 2024
Milan, one of the busiest and most polluted cities in Italy, is planning changes to its traffic organisation. They are to include a ban on cars in the centre.
Milan is one of the most polluted cities in Europe as well. In the area with a population of 1.4 million (3.26 million including the entire metropolitan area), the standards for harmful particulate matter in the air are exceeded four times.
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Milan plans to ban car traffic in the city centre
Mayor Giuseppe Sala sees the solution to the problem in minimising traffic, including closing the city centre to cars. To enforce the ban, cameras would be installed along Corso Venezia to record traffic and prevent private cars from entering.
Residents with a garage, anyone accessing car parks, taxis and public transport would be exempt from the ban. Any unauthorised entry into the city centre with a car will be punishable by a not yet specified fine. Sala will aim to introduce the new regulations as early as 2024, Euronews reports.
This would make some of Milan's busiest areas more pedestrian-friendly. That also includes the elegant Fashion Quadrilatero, home to many of the high-end boutiques for which the Italian fashion capital is famous.
I am not an antagonist of capitalism, but honestly seeing the parade of supercars in the centre which they then can't park, can’t continue.
Milan is not the only city to reduce car traffic forcefully
Milan is not the first European city to consider banning cars. In early October, Stockholm announced plans to block petrol and diesel cars from entering the city centre. The new regulations will come into force on 31 December 2024.
Paris, too, has plans to eliminate private vehicles from its historic centre by early 2024 in time for the Olympic Games.
Source: euronews.com
