Cars will be banned from London and all other cities across Europe under a draconian EU masterplan to cut CO2 emissions by 60 per cent over the next 40 years.

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 news triggered over 1700 comments, mostly are hate message. Ban cars sounds crazy now, just like the suggestion of ban smoking 20 years ago. But take a step back, if smoking should be banned from public space due to it’s negative health impact on others, then it is not that crazy to restrict car driving to area less affecting others, such as outside of city center. In fact many cities, including Amsterdam and Copenhagen, are already doing that with high level of living standard.