The Italian city of Milan is to banish cars for 10 hours on Sunday in a bid to cut the city’s air pollution.
The Northern Italy city first imposed trial bans in 2007, the BBC reports, and is imposed whenever pollution breaks statutory limits for 12 consecutive days.
Milan is one of Europe’s most polluted cities.
On Sunday, no cars were be able to travel through the city between the hours of 8am and 6pm local time. An estimated 120,000 vehicles were affected by the move, according to the Corriere della Sera newspaper.
The most polluting vehicles have already been banned from driving through the city centre since Thursday.
The ban is imposed when pollution exceeds 50 micrograms of particulates per cubic metre of air over 12 days. The last time the full ban was in force was in February.
However, not everyone in Milan supports the measure, with even environmentalists say that more support for public transport would be persuade people to leave the car at home of their own accord.
Local Green Party councillor Enrico Fedrighini "One or two car-free Sundays each month won’t do anything to tackle the smog crisis," he told Corriere della Sera.
