PONTEVEDRA, Spain — By the summer of 1999, the historic district of this picturesque northwestern city of 85,000 residents was clogged with traffic, its air filled with exhaust fumes and the cacophony of automobiles.
“It was a continuous traffic jam, and downright hellish,” César Mosquera, a university mathematics professor and city councilman in charge of urban planning, told Yahoo News.
“Now the streets are for the people, not the car,” Macenlle said, strolling past 16th-century stone buildings with orange-tiled roofs in the historic quarter. Mosquera pointed out that the number of cars needed to keep the city functioning is “really very little.” Pedestrian zones replaced spaces once dominated by automobiles, local businesses flourished, and soon Pontevedra was regularly receiving planning awards, including one in 2015 for smart urban management from Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Center for Active Design.
The right-wing Popular Party, which also sits on Pontevedra's City Council, often criticizes Lores's plans, including for blocking part of an avenue last year."It's increasingly difficult to access Pontevedra," a party spokesman,in February, adding that the traffic diversion"has killed business in the street." Hoping to demand a reversal, the party launched an online petition, but it failed to achieve its 2,500-signature goal.
"There's a real human speed to living in Pontevedra. I think it's an antidote to everything else that's going on — the crushing closeness of cars, the speed of cars, the speed of technology," Sally Higgens, a London-born
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