Hamburg plans to eliminate the need for cars within 20 years
Hamburg announced its intention to become a free car city within 20 years.
Hamburg is currently working on a plan that would eliminate the need for cars in the next 15-20 years, making the city greener, healthier and more livable city proposed Grünes Netz or green network will create cycle tracks and walking to connect the existing spaces, important green of the city, and to provide safe suburban routes, car-free for all residents.
Green Network of Hamburg will be built over the next 15-20 years, and it will create paths without car between all the great parks, playgrounds, community gardens and cemeteries in Hamburg The resulting network will cover 40 of the second most largest city in Germany, and it should allow both commuters and tourists navigate the city once dependent on the car entirely by bike and on foot.
The objectives of the network are multiple green one side, Hamburg recognizes the need to change the face of global warming; in the last 60 years, they average temperature in the city has increased by 1 to 2 degrees Celsius 9 degrees Celsius and sea levels have risen 20 centimeters and they're expected to rise 30 centimeters by 2100 Although a city without a car will no doubt do much to reduce C02 emissions, extended green areas that will fall on the new green paths also help mitigate floods during heavy rainfall or great.
Furthermore, such a network will contribute to the overall health of the city and its people The Guardian explained that Hamburg is planning a network doesn t only help residents from point A to point B in a sustainable way, with the spokesman of the city Angelika Fritsch add will provide opportunities for people to hike, swim, water sports, enjoy picnics and restaurants, experience the calm and watch the law of nature and wildlife in the city reduces the need to take the car for weekend trips outside the city.
Green Network of Hamburg is part of a growing trend, especially in Europe, to create complete cycle networks that include not only the urban centers and ring roads, but also connect the city and the suburbs of Copenhagen undertook perhaps the most ambitious of these plans with the construction of 26 highways bicycle, which extend from the center of the city as part of the goal of the city to become carbon neutral by 2050.
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