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From comment in the source they are not flock and at least officially intended for tracking who is going through the low pollution zones and which of them have vehicles that don't qualify to be there.
Some decades ago or so in bc/canada we had aircare and it went something along the lines of you brought your car in to be tested for emissions and cars that were too shit were just deemed not road worthy but some fuckass politicians managed to get rid of it easily with high support from drivers who hate any minor personal inconveniences. I'd happily go in for the testing if it was still a thing. Car manufacturers don't even have to try to make a safe product and every city just smells like car exhaust.
There's a much simpler and less intrusive way to accomplish that: just put up bollards to exclude all automobiles and only allow bicyclesa and pedestrians.
We have those but many of them cars are allowed to enter to park and it just ends up being cars zooming around to find a parking spot or idling until someone leaves and it still sucks to breathe there
Works great until an EMS vehicle needs to access the scene.
Emergency Service Vehicles can just be exceptions. Like how it is in the rest of the world. Banning cars off of streets and making them into pedestrian zones actually improves access for emergency service vehicles by a lot! Because, you know, there aren't any cars in the way to block them anymore. A handful of bicycles and some pedestrians can clear an entire road a lot faster than like 4 cars.
The rest of the world thought of this and said, "You know, maybe we should aim to make our emergency service vehicles more specialized and as compact as possible so that they can fit in any street easily and have high maneuverability". You know what the US did? Yup. They made EMS vehicles bigger and less specialized 🤦♂️...
There aren't any excuses for car centric street design.
Placing bollards(unless they are pneumatic retractable bollards) affect ALL cars.
Oh yeah. I hadn't seen them talking about bollards for some reason. That's true.