suggestion : Decree "day without cars"

[steph4]

Hi all,

I'm waiting Cities Skyline with impatience ! Meanwhile, I'm thinking what could be cool and original to add to the game.

Here's an idea. Won't it be cool if we could declare that, some days, no cars are allowed to drive. People can only take the bus, train, tramway or walk.

Consequence : The pollution decrease quickly. The air is better and the Citizen's health is increase.
BUT, the economy is slowed, the needs of trains and buses is important..etc

What do you think of this idea ?

 

[cRAGGLE]

I think you'd have a riot on your hands (in reality).

At the moment there is a district policy where you can stop heavy traffic from entering so that trucks and the like take alternative routes. Banning traffic altogether could be good for a CBD or inner city shopping mall but I'm pretty sure if you banned traffic from your entire city everything would just shut down! A popular sticker I see on the back of trucks here in Australia goes "Without trucks Australia stops." and that's the truth!

 

[Petreak]

I think I remember hearing or reading that they do that in Mexico. I think people with older cars can only drive them on certain days. Anyone from Mexico that can verify that?
I personally wouldn't like that, but I might use it in game as a policy if we had it. Just to see how it would work.

 

[steph4]

In France (I'm from France), when pollution is high, the governement can decide a number (pair or impair). When it's decided, only the cars with pair numbers can drive. The day after that, only the cars with impair numbers can drive.
Electric and hybrid car can drive all the time.

 

[BStyles]

The "Day Without Cars" idea sounds interesting, however, since days only last about three seconds, you wouldn't see its full effects.

A week, or a month, perhaps?

 

[steph4]

Yes, of course. Maybe even undetermined. If players activates it, it's on. The players will have to unactivates it manually. (It's just an idea).

 

[wreckitbob]

Ah yes, loveley, this reminds me of good ol communist eastern europe where there was an interesting law which required people with the first odd number in their license plate to keep their cars home for a weekend, and the next weekend the people with the first even number on their plates to keep them home. Good times, while we are discussing policies, i want a "all housing" decree and huge 10 stories dubious concrete apartment buildings appear in that area and only level 1, no upgrades, as well, a curfew for citizens so they stay home at night... oh wait no day/night cycle. Ok how about factories as the main income of cities and the commercial zones to be 200% more expensive for imported goods while promoting to use the goods made in the motherland which are cheaper but provide less happiness to citizens.
See where this is going?

 

[steph4]

Ah yes, loveley, this reminds me of good ol communist eastern europe where there was an interesting law which required people with the first odd number in their license plate to keep their cars home for a weekend, and the next weekend the people with the first even number on their plates to keep them home. Good times, while we are discussing policies, i want a "all housing" decree and huge 10 stories dubious concrete apartment buildings appear in that area and only level 1, no upgrades, as well, a curfew for citizens so they stay home at night... oh wait no day/night cycle. Ok how about factories as the main income of cities and the commercial zones to be 200% more expensive for imported goods while promoting to use the goods made in the motherland which are cheaper but provide less happiness to citizens.
See where this is going?

Hmm That's absolutely not like "an old communist country". It's a concrete ecological measure.
There're too much cars in the cities. Everyone wants a car a wants to drive it alone. Cars are becoming cheaper every year so more people can buy it. Problem : cars are bad for the environment and health (fine particle). So, it's a necessity to reduce the use of the car (and absolutely not a "communist law").
I live in a capitalist country with capitalist laws, but I am very supportive of any laws that can reduce the use of the car (and especially the big polluting cars).

 

[wreckitbob]

Bike lanes sound even more better now after these posts, it was better if CO had time to implement them rather than have no car policies, which i think there are in all seriousness. Heard somewhere that there might be a policy for no cars rather than just a day without cars

 

[john500y2k]

I was on holiday in Milan and there was a day that this is exactly what they did. It was one day a year that is a "no car day".

It made for the most surreal day of the holiday and made the city even more beautiful. Wide empty roads that you could just walk on. The city was so uncluttered and peacefully quite.

Don't really see this working out in the game however with a day cycle only being a few seconds and not sure how it would work considering the cims are not time based and just travel at random times so could be out and about at just before midnight of no car day then would have to dump car on side of road.

 

[DK115]

Already in the eighties in Holland, no cars allowed on Sundays:

 

[ChaplainDMK]

Hmm That's absolutely not like "an old communist country". It's a concrete ecological measure.
There're too much cars in the cities. Everyone wants a car a wants to drive it alone. Cars are becoming cheaper every year so more people can buy it. Problem : cars are bad for the environment and health (fine particle). So, it's a necessity to reduce the use of the car (and absolutely not a "communist law").
I live in a capitalist country with capitalist laws, but I am very supportive of any laws that can reduce the use of the car (and especially the big polluting cars).

My parents lived in Yugoslavia, and they mentioned that as the country was falling apart in the mid-late 1980s, fuel shortages meant you had what he described lol. You also had to go to Austria to get sruff like chocolate and coffee apparently. Anyways thats all mostly fascist socialism, not really communism.

 

[taylorb]

I think this may have big enough impacts for real world, but I don't see the benefit of having something like this in game. I think biking/pedestrian/bus only lanes/paths would be beneficial because its more of a long term solution rather than something that only happens for a "day" which when you are going over a country/city's history over many years it happens in the blink of an eye.

 

[steph4]

Don't know if it will have a huge impact but it could.

If the player decide to keep the decree "no cars alowed" for few months, he could see the impact.
Of course, it will be necessary to have a very important public transport infrastructure for this kind of decisions.