Driving into a city should become as antisocial as smoking | Gaby Hinsliff
Clean air zones, such as the one proposed in Birmingham, can work if we increase people’s options. Ministers must get involved
Imagine a capital city where nobody has to die on the roads. It may sound almost impossible, but last year not a single pedestrian, cyclist or child lost their life on the streets of Norway’s capital, Oslo; the only fatality recorded was a motorist crashing into a fence. (By comparison 12 people were killed in, a city slightly smaller than Oslo, in 2017 – and over half of them were pedestrians or cyclists.)
