From GoKunming:
Kunming first Chinese city with monthly 'No-car Days'
Kunming newspaper Dushi Shibao is reporting that beginning on the 27th of this month, Kunming will be the first city in China to have monthly 'No-car days'. After this month, private cars will be banned from entering the city's ring road between the hours of 9:00 am and 7:00 pm on the fourth Saturday of each month.
On September 22 Kunming was one of more than 100 Chinese cities to ban private cars downtown during the day. For twelve hours, downtown Kunming's streets were primarily occupied by buses, taxis, electric scooters and bicycles. The city's effort was one of the most successful in the country, while Beijing and Shanghai's no-car days received lukewarm reviews...
Lukewarm is a bit of an exaggeration. It was impossible to notice any effects of Beijing's no-car day in September.
The capital of Yunnan Province, near Laos, Thailand and Burma, Kunming has always been one of China's most pleasant cities. If they actually manage to decrease car use, it will be even nicer.
This article is from Danwei.org
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Oct 22 2007, 12:29 AM
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