Excerpts from ”Europe Stifles Drivers in Favor of Alternatives” a recent article in NY Times…

“As he stood watching a few cars inch through a mass of bicycles and pedestrians, Zurich’s chief traffic planner, Andy Fellmann, smiled. “Driving is a stop-and-go experience,” he said. “That’s what we like! Our goal is to reconquer public space for pedestrians, not to make it easy for drivers.”

“The methods vary, but the mission is clear — to make car use expensive and just plain miserable enough to tilt drivers toward more environmentally friendly modes of transportation.”