Ursula von der Leyen, Mette Frederiksen and all the Danish & EU bigwigs are in Aarhus today for the EU presidency handover ceremony & mid-city street party. The media keeps interviewing irate car drivers about closed roads. I wish they'd ask me and everyone else who walks & cycles around. The roads aren't closed. Only to cars. The rest of us are getting around more easily and quickly. No red lights making 20 people stop so 1 car can pass. Sauntering on roads. Moving in direct human desire lines.
@CiaraNi Seems like Aahus really sucks at traffic policy and planning. In contrast my home town of Darmstadt makes the carmageddon that is the annual inner city festival (Heinerfest) hell for cyclists, pedestrians and public transport users, too. In an ideal car world, when motorists suffer, everyone else has to suffer too. Don't they know that in Denmark!?
@CiaraNi You should feel lucky. I can even forget the narrow-mindedness of the press when it's actually working.
Here, the council doesn't even enforce existing traffic law like the ban of parking on footpaths.
@cweickhmann I hope all of our cities and towns and villages move further away from that kind of car culture and car dominance.
@cweickhmann Haha - I must admit that we are lucky here. The council has done great work orienting the city towards good living quality with cyclists and pedestrians prioritised.