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Stockholm to ban petrol and diesel cars from centre from 2025

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Stockholm to ban petrol and diesel cars from centre from 2025

www.theguardian.com /world/2023/oct/11/stockholm-ban-petrol-and-diesel-cars-city-centre-2025-swedish-capital-pollution

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This is fantastic and a good example of what other cities around the world should do.
in an effort to slash pollution and reduce noise
I think that summarizes it. Not effective for tackling climate crisis.
- Focusing on passenger cars never will be, as their co2 output is only around 15% of the total in the EU. Every little bit helps, sure, but even getting completely rid of cars wouldn't be enough.
  
  15% sounds like a great chunk to reduce.
Swedish city tries to reduce pollution and noise
How does this help reducing noise? I think with modern cars, tires generate notably more noise than the engine unless the speed is below 30 km/h. I hear no difference between a petrol car and electric when they're driving past me at 50-60 km/h.
- Depends on the car. Unfortunately, you always have people who want their cars and motorbikes to be loud (small penis syndrome).
- That's true, but presumably in a city, the average speed is far lower than that.
- They make make more noise while accelerating which I would presume would be something that happens often in a city center with lots of stops and starts.
🤖 I'm a bot that provides automatic summaries for articles: ::: spoiler Click here to see the summary Stockholm has announced plans to become the first big capital city to ban petrol and diesel cars from its centre, in an effort to slash pollution and reduce noise.
From 2025, 20 blocks of Stockholm’s inner city area, spanning its finance and main shopping districts, will be restricted to electric vehicle traffic only.
Announcing the plan, Lars Stromgren, the city’s vice-mayor for transport, said: “Nowadays, the air in Stockholm causes babies to have lung conditions and the elderly to die prematurely.
Paris, Athens and Madrid have only banned diesel cars, and London has a charging scheme that covers the most polluting combustion engines.
“Many cities have implemented low-emission zones where high-emission cars are allowed to drive if they pay a charge,” Stromgren was quoted as saying by Air Quality News.
“We have chosen an area where large numbers of cyclists and pedestrians are exposed to unhealthy air on a daily basis.
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There is a significant amount of particulate air pollution that comes from tires. Heavier electric cars make that somewhat worse.
Step in the right direction, but really we need to ban cars.

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