So want to Helldén reduce car traffic in Stockholm: the basic problem is too many cars

Bikes, korttidshyra of everything from scooters to electric cars and the old car rental companies that invest in new services and vehicles. Suddenly have different forms of sharing vehicles has become common in our environment.

During a panel discussion hosted by the liberal think tank Fores explained the Stockholm trafikborgarråd and chair of the Stockholm Parking, Daniel Helldén, that the new technology and the new services needed to reduce traffic in the town.

– trafikborgarråd and responsible for traffic in Stockholm, so I see it as my task, in this context, we should follow the trend and allow this.

that the several bildelningstjänster have had problems in Stockholm is the lack of parking spaces. When Josephine Adorelle from the new bildelningstjänsten Aimo called for more visibility and better parking for the cars was Daniel Helldén.

– It is well excellent to create more places on the streets for bildelningstjänster, but we must not it in the day. That is the problem, that we have a government which had not dared to move in parkeringslagstiftningen in a thousand years. It is better that it is a bildelningsbil parked on the street than a car that is standing and waiting for someone to go to the country on the weekend.

According to Daniel Helldén leading private car ownership to more use of the car.

– the basic problem that we have in Stockholm is that a lot of people own a car as they need quite a few trips. In the inner city, for example, where it is incredibly short on parking spaces, it is in front of all the people who want to go somewhere on the weekend or in the summer. They can have a car one of the pieces so they will go much smaller car. For have you not your car next to you is your own so it will take an additional step before you run.

" you know, so it is. Do you have your own car so you take it. You can get away from it so it is the first step. Then the second step is to solve the how to get away from the fossil, to solve the laddinfrastrukturen and we are working hard in the city. It is overall, no matter what the type of cars.

– It would be good if we generally could get rid of the internal combustion engine. We have a private car-sharing for city staff with only electric cars, which is open to the other during the weekends, so it would naturally be preferable. But we can not set the requirements on the company's services.

– It is a combination. Can we get fewer people who own a car so there will be fewer people who use cars and thus both reduced congestion and less emissions. It affects both parts.

" Yes, it is clear that we must have congestion regardless of the form of car-sharing or not. And we get self-driven cars so there are analyses which show a risk to the run increases. But when we look at the other instruments. There are kilometeravståndsträngselskatt and other things.

– the Problem concerns the whole of Stockholm and four municipalities. Certainly there are those that need to use the car, but according to the Swedish transport administration's estimates, would require vehicle use reduced by 30 per cent. Then there is 70% left. A lot of trips can be made in another way and of course, there are car trips that are not needed.

" No, I don't think so, it is not realistic. But we can reduce the number of cars. We have a lot of cars parked, and they may well disappear. Those who run shall preferably be electric cars, then we get a more vibrant urban environment.