Madrid to ban traffic from city centre, except residents
Wednesday, May 23, 2018 @ 6:57 PM
NON-RESIDENT traffic will be banned from the whole of the centre of Madrid from November in a bid to drastically cut air pollution.
The massive circle marked out by the city council in which vehicles will no longer be allowed from the end of the year includes the streets near the main Atocha station, the Plaza de España, the Gran Vía, the Paseo del Prado and almost as far as the Retiro Park and the Cibeles fountain roundabout.
To make up for the car restrictions, cycle lanes will be extended.
Other environmentally-friendly measures will include replacing the city buses with hybrid or electric vehicles and cutting the speed limit on the M-30 ringroad to 70 kilometres per hour.
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