{"id":1027,"date":"2026-02-06T13:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T13:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/1027\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T13:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T13:00:06","slug":"stockholms-plan-to-get-cars-out-of-the-city-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/1027\/","title":{"rendered":"Stockholm\u2019s plan to get cars out of the city \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pay up<\/p>\n<p>While Str\u00f6mgren insists such dialogue \u2014 especially with the business community \u2014 is key to reducing automotive pressure in the city center, tougher measures have been employed as well.<\/p>\n<p>The price of parking a private vehicle in some parts of Stockholm have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.svt.se\/nyheter\/lokalt\/stockholm\/boendeparkering-ska-bli-500-kronor-dyrare--6cztwi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">increased<\/a> from 1,100 to 1,600 kronor \u2014 roughly \u20ac140 \u2014 per month. And the deputy mayor freely admits the goal is to make using private cars in the city inconvenient.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want people to really think about whether it\u2019s worth it to own a car, or whether it makes more economic sense to rely on the public transport network,\u201d which accounts for roughly half of all city travel, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Heavy investment in public transport and <a href=\"https:\/\/stockholmshandelskammare.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/shk_report_road_to_cycling_city.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">cycling infrastructure<\/a> \u2014 which led to a 34.8 percent increase in urban biking since 2015 \u2014 have also been instrumental in reducing car traffic in central Stockholm by 11.7 percent over the past decade.<\/p>\n<p>While car ownership in Stockholm remains relatively stable, it has decreased by 5.3 percent since 2017, which the city views as a \u201ca small but steady\u201d success. Plus, Stockholm\u2019s automotive ownership rates are at their lowest since 2000, with 355 cars per 1,000 inhabitants compared to 491 cars per 1,000 inhabitants in the rest of Sweden.<\/p>\n<p>With just a year left until elections, Str\u00f6mgren \u2014 a member of the Green Party governing Stockholm in coalition with the Left Party and the Social Democrats \u2014 conceded that measures like the parking price hike may be unpopular with some voters. Even though the policy was designed with working-class residents in mind, and includes provisions for tradespeople who rely on their cars for work, it remains a thorny issue.<\/p>\n<p>Emphasizing the importance of listening to such backlash and taking &#8220;a step back&#8221; when errors are made, the deputy mayor added that city leaders can\u2019t let progress be halted by a few critical voices either.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome people are just not going to like what you do, whatever it is. I don\u2019t waste time worrying about losing their vote; they weren\u2019t going to vote for me anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pay up While Str\u00f6mgren insists such dialogue \u2014 especially with the business community \u2014 is key to reducing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[1298,1299,1300,1301,131,132,1302],"class_list":{"0":"post-1027","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-stockholm","8":"tag-cars","9":"tag-cities","10":"tag-living-cities","11":"tag-mobility","12":"tag-stockholm","13":"tag-sweden","14":"tag-urban-mobility"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}