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Driving a car in the city should be the new smoking

24 October 2018

Banning cars from city centres used to be unthinkable – but evidence of the harms they do, and the huge benefits of getting rid of them, mean we should think it
bus

Failed electric buses remind us that roads not taken do matter

6 September 2017

Human actions rather than technology undermined London's electric buses 100 years ago, showing there's plenty to be learned by revisiting the past

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