A subordinated system for cars, service vehicles and public transport was to have been tucked away, more remotely. No-one parks outside their front door. Parking spaces are provided beside the shopping sheds, the primary schools and at the call-in points for buses. There are garage courts linked to the periphery roads. The Swedish can, and do entertain choices both ethical and practical to either take their older children to school by car or to send them by bus, or in the summer on their bicycles.
Swedish commuters have to make the same choices.
Close to Linkoping's city centre, the old barracks have mostly been demolished to make way for housing of a higher population density, financed in a variety of ways. But again, parking has been kept strictly to the periphery. What struck me was the presence of mind with which the Swedes had comprehensively solved their planning problems in an ethical and practical way. In the fifties, when the radial shopping high streets into London had been thoroughly clogged with traffic, the transport planners set out new 'arterial' roads to the centre. They slashed routes across street after street.