why is it necessary to exclude cars from the cities?

Each year, the moment of the World one of the car, as at the time of the day without cars, the media wonder (certainly rightly) which will be the place of the car in the city of the future. One indeed sees multiplying the advertisements on the reduction of space to circulate, on the suppression of parking spaces, on urban tolls, the prohibition of the 4x4, etc… my step of today will consist in proving that it would be preferable to draw aside the cars of the centres town.

Obviously, the car has a real utility…
-Obviously, for many people, the car is essential for everyday. There are many people for which the work is nearly 50 kilometers, and when there is no public service of transport, the car is essential. I agree that, but the subject of my intervention is not that. I just want to talk about thecars inside the cities.
-An other main problem of the cars in the cities is pollution. If the strong decrease of industrial pollution shows the part of the pollution coming from the transport in general. in spite of the reduction in the emissions of pollutants of each new vehicle, the regular increase in the traffic largely equals the benefit obtained by the technical works (as the catalytic system that permited a reduction of the emissions of CO and NOx).

… But the car has a lot of disadvantages.
Pollution, noise, problem of gestion of the space, congestions, accidents. Everyone knows these problems, and I will expose them to you in this second part.
-Pollution. Even if the manufacturers works a lot to resolve this problem, transport are the first sector that emmit bad gaz, representing ¼ CO2 emitted by the human activity.
-Noise. More than 900 road black spots (points where the residences are exposed in frontage to more than 70 decibels between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. ) are listed in France, all inside the citise.
-Gestion of the space. That is the largest handicap of the car, the occupation of the urban space. A car occupates around 10 m2 of space but these places are limited and the political leaders reduce them more and more everyday to set the priority to common transport and foot transport. This space is not sufficient to satisfy the need of motorization of the people that continues to increase. Some cities wanted to solve the problem of the parking creating underground public or private parks but this solution is expensive and creates social discriminations, which is of the same order as that induced by urban toll. Moreover, these parks are realy “car eaters” and they were closed in some cities, particulary in Switzerland.
-Car Accidents. Today, there are more than 3000 people that died on the French roads , in them. Most of these deaths are due to accidents which proceeded in agglomeration1738 deaths in 2005. It should be noted also that more than 50% of the accidents happen in the cities.
-Congestions. Specialists calculated that, in Paris, if a street is blocked during ten minutes to cause a congestion of 2.800 cars. Moreover, these same specialists indicate that the peripheric boulevard exceeds of 75% its maximal capacity more than twelve hours per day.

I will now expose some examples that were concluant.
-Urban toll. Some great European cities as London, Stockholm, and Milan decided to implement systems of subscription to enter a in these cities. The problem of these systems is that the effect is not to remove the vehicles, but simply to limit their number. What does not have really my favour.
-The free car. Since the beginning of the Nineties, the INRIA (National Institute of Research in Data processing and Automatics) studies with partners such as the INRETS of the means of reducing the problems that the vehicles traffic do. A solution which was quickly found, the division of the car. Not the car sharing which forces several individuals to use the same vehicle, but the division through time, with public vehicles which are free of using to go from a point to another. This system was developed and tested for the first time in the world in the 'Praxitèle' project with 50 electric vehicles Renault with St Quentin en Yvelines in 1997. With more than 10,000 vehicles in self-service, Switzerland and Germany are today the most avanced countries on this point ( whereas there countries have the biggest vehicle rate in Europe ). This number is very weak compared with the 800 million vehicles circulating trough the world but this service just starts. With growth rates of about 50% per year, the professionals of car hiring are interested in it.
-The Antibes case. The port of Antibes (the largest of the Europe) was bordered by many parkings. Located directly near the old historical city, it influes a lot on the circulation in the city which is yet supersaturated. The municipality decided to remove all of the parking space in the city, around the port, and around the beach. In same time, the municipality created a large carpark out of the city connected to the port and the rest of the town by a system of ecological shuttles. The creation of this system required to change of the orientation of a boulevard which is from now on entirely pedestrian. The experimentation happens 10 days long, and the results were conclusive, so the municipality decided to extend the system since 2007 on a longer section than the initial plans.

If I made this intervention, the intention was not to stigmatise the automobilists, but to show the dangers and the uselessness of the cars in the great cities. After have spent many hours in Congestions, I know that, in these cities, I walk faster the cars move.

burn them

Sohanne Benzianne, Vitry, 2003. Mama Galedou, Marseille, 2006. Two different women, two similar contexts. I agree that the authors of these events are not the same ones but the acts are the same. Young peoples say themselves who can live or not in their buildings. Under the pretext which the first was a “whore”, she was made burned. in the second case, Under the pretext which a bus is a representative of the impious state (not Moslem), young people decided to also burn it, a 22 year old young woman burn in in the bus.
A question comes to me, does some people have the right to be made justice themselves?
Of course, the answer is no, and worst still, if I looks at the events a little more, I see that those which made these acts made the same acts as the hunters of witch of the Middle Ages. Then, I say that the solution to calm them, it is to burn them publicaly. With methods of the Middle Ages, solutions of the Middle Age.