If you travel to this city, forget the car on Sundays: the goal is to promote physical activity and improve air quality

Traffic regulations vary, and much, depending on the country in which you are. What can be a normal practice at the wheel, can be a complete barbarity away from your border.

Of course, always, indistinctly where you are, It must be the driver who must adapt to the country’s traffic standards where. And you know, the ignorance of the law does not exempt you from compliance.

Beyond these differences, some governments have implemented some extraordinary measures that may surpriseand much, to travelers, either for road safety reasons, energy crisis or environmental reasons. For example, as of this year, Ibiza will charge tourists one euro a day by car or motorhome.

Prohibited driving on Sundays

Due to the aforementioned extraordinary measures that each country applies, it is quite advisable to inform themselves on local regulations. To avoid sanctions and other possible scares, more than anything.

Among the extraordinary measures, it stands out The city of Kigalicapital of the African country of Rwanda. As it appears in the Official website of the United Kingdom Foreign Ministrythe city celebrates The first and third Sunday of each month a “morning without cars”.

This period includes three hours, which They extend between 7:00 and 10:00. In that period of time, vehicles are totally prohibited from circulating through the streets.

This initiative seeks to promote exercise while reducing polluting emissions for a series of hours. In addition, the application of this measure could expand to other cities in the country.

“From the beginning, It was a collaboration initiative in which everyone won to help make Kigali green, improve air quality and promote physical activity“, says Joseph Mucumbitsi, president of the Ent de Ruanda Alliance in the World Forum of the Ent Alliance, a World Public Health Conference that was held in Kigali a couple of months ago, as reported The Mail & Guardian.

However, limiting traffic on specific dates is not something exclusive to Rwanda. Since the 90s, The world day without car is celebrated every September 22a global initiative to raise awareness about pollution and promote sustainable mobility. In 2000, the European Commission adopted this idea and incorporated it to the European Mobility Week.

Besides, cities like Paris, Bogotá and Brussels have implemented similar restrictions: Paris organizes days without cars in its center to reduce pollution and give priority to pedestrians; Bogotá celebrates a day without a car in which the use of private vehicles is prohibited; And Brussels enjoy Sundays without traffic, allowing residents and tourists to move on foot or by bicycle.

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