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…CITIES BECAME CAR-FREE?

Here’s the fun bit. Did you know that traffic in London today moves slower than a horse-drawn carriage – and the average cyclist? That car drivers in Bogotá, Colombia, spent 271 hours in traffic jams during 2018, in Dublin 246 hours and in London 227 hours, according to global traffic data cruncher INREX.

Here’s the not-so-fun bit. Air pollution is now the world’s

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