CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: ”Banning cars from city centres will enable our roads to blossom” Simon Jenkins http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: ”Banning cars from city centres will enable our roads to blossom” Simon Jenkins en Sun, 31 May 2026 11:27:54 +0000 Rosie on "”Banning cars from city centres will enable our roads to blossom” Simon Jenkins" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20036#post-320991 Fri, 17 Jan 2020 11:20:51 +0000 Rosie 320991@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The horror that progressive politics of the 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s had a Year Zero attitude towards anything related to the past, especially Victorian, with the desire to raze it down for something fast and glossy on Futurist lines. People who spoke up against it were dinosaurs and retired colonels.</p> <p>Edinburgh was saved by the skin of its teeth from bringing the M8 into the city centre. </p> chdot on "”Banning cars from city centres will enable our roads to blossom” Simon Jenkins" http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20036#post-320986 Fri, 17 Jan 2020 10:00:45 +0000 chdot 320986@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/16/banning-cars-city-centres-revolution-town-planning" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/16/banning-cars-city-centres-revolution-town-planning</a> </p>