Plans to Ban Cars in European Cities: Progressivism Robbing Freedoms

I couldn't believe my eyes. The European Union has a plan to outlaw cars. I'm not kidding.

The European Commission on Monday unveiled a "single European transport area" aimed at enforcing "a profound shift in transport patterns for passengers" by 2050.

The plan also envisages an end to cheap holiday flights from Britain to southern Europe with a target that over 50 per cent of all journeys above 186 miles should be by rail.

Top of the EU's list to cut climate change emissions is a target of "zero" for the number of petrol and diesel-driven cars and lorries in the EU's future cities.

Siim Kallas, the EU transport commission, insisted that Brussels directives and new taxation of fuel would be used to force people out of their cars and onto "alternative" means of transport.
"That means no more conventionally fuelled cars in our city centres," he said. "Action will follow, legislation, real action to change behaviour."

Now let's think about Obama's plan for high-speed rail. If you don't think this can't happen in the United States, you better think again and decide what the purpose of high-speed rail really is. It's to control your travel, and this could happen in the United States too.

This might not pass in the EU the first time, but the seed is planted. I bet in my lifetime, this will be passed.