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Central Madrid: the naysayers were wrong about the impact of traffic restrictions in the Spanish capital

Enrique Dans
Enrique Dans
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3 min readMar 11, 2019

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Who’d have thought it? After a three-month pilot scheme that has seen non-resident traffic restricted in a 472-hectare area of Central Madrid, the doom and gloom merchants’ predictions have proved unfounded: shops have not seen any fall off in trade and there has been no rise in air pollution levels. In short, the…

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Enrique Dans
Enrique Dans

Professor of Innovation at IE Business School and blogger (in English here and in Spanish at enriquedans.com)