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This Spanish Mayor Is Putting Pedestrians First

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For decades, throngs of cars clogged the cobblestone streets of Pontevedra’s medieval downtown, making this seaside city on Spain’s northwestern tip a hard place to live. Loud noise and narrow walkways drove pedestrians, and therefore young families, away from a region struggling with a shrinking and aging population. Family physician turned mayor Miguel Fernandez Lores managed to halt the bleeding by closing many streets to car traffic. Now the city is a model of success in a growing global movement that's trying to reclaim streets for pedestrians.

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