Switzerland has several municipalities that banned private cars, mostly in touristy places. Theses are advertised on the Swiss tourism website:

https://www.myswitzerland.com/de-ch/reiseziele/ferienorte-und-staedte/autofreie-orte/

Some of these are member of a Verein to support their common interests

https://www.auto-frei.ch/index.php/de/gastortschaften

Now this is great and these places are thriving without all the nuisance from cars (probably saving quite a bit of money with less wear to infrastructure and all associated costs) but it’s only a few dots on the map. Which should be the next ones?

Here are a few suggestions (criteria are: has a train station, is sufficiently known to attract lots of tourists)

  • Grindelwald
  • Andermatt
  • Engelberg
  • Gstaad

Maybe even Interlaken? Other suggestions?

https://old.reddit.com/r/Switzerland/comments/1d8i6u5/which_municipalities_should_be_the_next_to_go_car/

Posted by ChezDudu

2 Comments

  1. Interlaken would probably work quite well if we exclude Matten and Unterseen and the main road to Unterseen. There isnt a lot of traffic or people coming by car in the areas that would be affected by this change anyways.