Saw this via Twitter: a Mother Nature Network photoessay on seven car-free cities.
The tweeter (TreadlyAndMe) suggested adding Rottnest (also Lucca and Bergamo) to the list.
The MNN list is Sark (which we've touched on), Mackinac Island in Michigan, a Moroccan medina "home to more than 156,000 people...considered one of the largest contiguous car-free urban areas in the world", Hydra, La Cumbrecita in Argentina, Lamu Island in Kenya and of course Venice.
Rottnest is largely vehicle-free. There are police cars, tour buses, delivery vans, luggage trucks, forklifts...and the pristine vehicle pictured.
We saw it during our June sojourn. It picked up a bunch of people in south Thomson one morning, then was outside the visitor centre near the jetty. Why is it needed on the beautiful island?
I've seen it being used to chauffeur fairly young looking Aboriginal 'elders.'
ReplyDeleteOld codger.