Oslo made its city center basically car-free–and it’s great

By the beginning of this year, the city finished removing more than 700 parking spots–replacing them with bike lanes, plants, tiny parks, and benches–as a major step toward a vision of a car-free city center. “There are basically no cars,” says Axel Bentsen, CEO of Urban Sharing, the company that runs Oslo City Bike, the local bike-share system. For the last few years, the city has also been quickly building out a better-connected bike network, converting parking to bright-red bike lanes.

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