To Make Pedestrians Kings of the City, Strasbourg Plans to Drop City Speed Limits to 18 MPH

Strasbourg’s Place de l’Homme de Fer. Photo: Lauri Pitkänen under a Creative Commons license . Strasbourg, in north-eastern France, is already one of the country’s most bike-friendly cities. Fewer than half of its residents use a car to get around, and it has more than 300 miles of bike lines, not to mention a tramway network that is the longest and densest in France. Now the city is really throwing down the gauntlet: it announced this week its plan to reduc… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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To Make Pedestrians Kings of the City, Strasbourg Plans to Drop City Speed Limits to 18 MPH

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