London car ban announced

from http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/magazine/20TRAFFIC.html?8hpib

> On an unusually bright morning earlier this year, that mayor, Ken Livingstone, strides into the
> room before a bank of cameras, and with an unusually pleased look on his dour face, announces a
> coup, one that has eluded dozens of large cities like New York, Los Angeles and Paris. He has not
> conquered crime or poverty, but he may very well have hobbled an urban enemy seemingly just as
> invincible: the car. Livingstone has just begun the world's most radical experiment in reclaiming
> the city from the tyranny of the automobile, a power struggle that cities have been losing in
> humiliating fashion for more than half a century.

something we should do in some of our cities...