Talk:List of car-free islands

message: Many islands, that are in brazil deep in the amazonian might be inhabited, yet, car free.
--Kamil Hasenfeller (talk) 11:38, 3 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Places in Brazil?

message: The article was initially car-free places. Why was it renamed in car-free islands? Most islands in the world are car-free actually...one should include so many inhabited islands, islands. 
Why is there so much will to reduce the number of places mentionned here? As for the user that has removed one island in Ouagadougou which has been recently made car-free. Local press at least felt it was worth writing about it, even if it's a low-motorisation countr? Kamil_Hasenfeller
(talk) 15:27, 8 April 2023
Yelapa, Jalisco, Mexico should also be included, as it has a noteworthy population and supports tourism. 
It is not technically an Island surrounded by water, but it is definitely a town that matches the Island definition 2. 
"a thing resembling an island, especially in being isolated, detached, or surrounded in some way." It does appear that someone changed the title from Car-free places without discussion. There is very little information on Autoluw places in the world... the wiki article hasn't even been translated!  Oldarney2 (talk) 22:31, 11 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Why has been the article been destroyed?

message: Hi, I can't find any evidence that the mall from Odéon to Place Monge is car-free. Did you mean Odéon to Port-Royal which would mean jardin du Luxembourg + avenue de l'observatoire which is car free? I hope I am wrong and there is a car free lane from Odéon to Place Monge! REgards Phil of Bristol 14:22, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Paris 

message: Not all the entries currently meet the criteria listed at the top of the page. Please delete entries which are too common to be listed, and add new ones. --Erauch 05:02, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Please delete as well as add

message: Help is available on editing a page.
If you have a web link for the place, add it like this:
|Hahnenklee-Bockswiese || Entire town || 2,500 || Town in the Harz mountain area 
If the place stands out, its name should have a beige background: add |bgcolor="#dddd88" at the beginning of the line: 
|bgcolor="#dddd88"|Freiburg im Breisgau || Large carfree center || City 200,000; Carfree areas perhaps 10,000? || Medieval university town; a very small amount of car traffic is permitted on some streets; trams provide access 
In the few cases where the place is almost completely carfree (green background), add |bgcolor="#88dd88":
|bgcolor="#88dd88"|Zermatt || Entire town || Probably 20,000 or so || Carfree Alpine resort with prototype "Utility Area" at the entrance; slow electric taxis and freight vehicles used, although these are sometimes driven at higher speeds 
--Erauch 17:15, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Additional guidelines

message: I think Freiburg's role as a car-free town is a little bit exaggerated.
I live in Freiburg, even in the mentioned Vauban area.
Even in the Vauban area there are cars.
Lots of cars, actually.
Inside Vauban, there is only one section (called "Genova" ) which is actually car-free.
This section consists of 73 apartments.
That's it.
The rest of the houses is directly reachable by cars.
Of course there is reduced traffic, but this is nothing special for German residential areas.
Best regards, --zeno 23:10, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Freiburg 

message: Should we spell it as car-free? Some people, like me, misread carfree as “Carefree”.
:: Absolutely! I have made this change in the page, such that it now conforms to the Wikipedia:Avoid neologisms recommendation.  "Carfree" is certainly a neologism, whereas car-free is simply hyphinated words describing the movement. Az7997 19:22, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hyphenated? 

message: First, I deleted Peachtree Center in Atlanta, simply because it doesn't meet the criteria in any way, shape or form (nobody lives there, car intrusion still exists, etc).  Additionally, its entry seemed biased, as though a tourism ad.
My main question is this: shouldn't Manhattan, or at least NYC at large, be listed?  I always hear that 2 million residents live in the urban area without cars.  Even though car intrusion exists in New York, the city certainly fosters a car-free lifestyle for many people.  It seems the U.S. standard is only that it is an exceptional example of car-independent life, since we do not have truly car-free cities.  Surely New York is exceptional in the United States for its centralized-design and subway system.  I don't know; I don't use wikipedia that much.  What do you think?
71.56.70.127 15:26, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Manhattan under US section? 

message: IIRC, the Sahara area of Rio de Janeiro has several narrow pedestrian streets with small stores. And there are a few other carfree streets in the old centro. Does anyone know the street names to add Rio to the list? 71.146.35.69 15:55, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thus the "unusual for their country or region" requirement. It might be useful to have a car-restricted classification, for areas that allow emergency vehicles, utility vehicles, busses, taxis, or vehicles only at certain times of day (or night). But it would be hard to draw the line. jax 07:24, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing streets in Rio de Janeiro 

message: It seems hard to believe that there are no car-free places in all of Australasia.  Yeesh. I know Melbourne had a few - Swanston St and the Bourke St Mall - although I haven't lived there for 4 years, and things change. Maw 22:37, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Asia?  The Antipodes? 

message: Inserted by Rauterkus 18:06, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Discovery Bay in Hong Kong

message: Can someone who understands how ro do it please clean up the faulty formatting which has ledt one place orphaned at the end of the Asia section?  Thanks.  Rodparkes 09:20, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Formatting of Asia section

message: I've been to Polperro in Cornwall, and we had to park our car in a car park just outside the main village, and could only access it by horse and cart or electric tram. As far as I can see, this would count as a "car-free" place (and the wikipedia page for Polperro seems to back me up), although I would like someone else's opinion on this.
82.19.71.120 (talk) 17:41, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Polperro, Cornwall 

message: I can find no evidence that Ouagadougou is any more car-free than any other cities in the region, furthermore referring to the city's inhabitants as 'villagers' and assuming they are too poor to afford cars sounds unnecessarily patronizing for a Wikipedia article.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.45.147.176 (talk) 13:16, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggest Ouagadougou be removed from the list 

message: This category under Europe needs some work doing, when someone has some time.
Ideally each country within this category would be listed separately, in alphabetical order under "Europe"; it would be a step forward if the countries therein were even in within the Baltic or Balkans territories. Neither the Czeck Republic nor Romania qualify. Also, Serbia is already listed separately, so it's a bit of a tussle to decide whether to take out Belgrade and put it under Serbia or whether to put the whole of Serbia into the "Baltic and Balkans" category, which would seem to be a retrograde step but might be expected by readers to appear there.
Rainlightly (talk) 18:43, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Baltic and Balkans 

message: Since the chart includes the park island in Wisconsin (accessible by ferry but no vehicles allowed), I can think of several similar islands that would qualify, including Matagorda Island in Texas and Horn Island in Mississippi.  I would add them myself if I had the patience to figure out these tables.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.69.204.131 (talk) 22:11, 26 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  park islands 

message: Hi! Koh Tral (Phu Quoc) is a Vietnamese Island - i know about the history and the related dispute - still it lies inside Vietnamese territory, has been for quite some time and will remain so for the foreseeable future. 
Anyhow, the great majority of Cambodia's Islands doesn't have any roads and is car-free. Exceptions: Koh Sdach (1 road), Koh Puah (Snake island) and Koh Ta Kiev. The Islands of Koh Kong's mangrove marshes do have dirt tracks frequented by all sorts of vehicles.
All the best!!!
Wikirictor (talk) 10:10, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Koh Tral and Cambodia 

message: The following islands are mentioned as car-free:
* Innis Meain
* Hydra
* Sark
* Porquerolles
* Little corn island
* Rottnest island
* Kadavu
* Lamu
* Caye Caulker
* Perhentian Islands
* La Digue
* Gili Islands
* Ko Phi Phi
* Zlarin
* Krapanj
http://www.kqed.org/tv/programs/archive/index.jsp?pgmid=22384
http://www.touropia.com/laid-back-islands-without-cars/
Some are probably not yet mentioned.
What hasn't been described neither are Car-free countries. I'm assuming these also exist as some small island states (ie in the Pacific) probably don't have cars neither, and are countries on their own (I'm thinking of Niue, ...)
KVDP (talk) 13:20, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Car-free islands and car-free countries

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message: Most of places listed have only a few pedestrian streets in the entire city. In most of these places you can not even avoid seeing cars while being in the "carfree" area. What is the limit to consider a place car-free? Unless this is well defined, this list does not make sense and does not belong in Wikipedia. Also this article is almost completely unreferenced. --Ita140188 (talk) 12:27, 27 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is the meaning of this list? 

message: This list as it is now is a mess. Most of the places listed are not car-free. Moreover, the list is almost completely unreferenced. "nearly car free" and "A limited number of vehicles intrude" are not useful definition for inclusions. In the next days I will proceed to remove all entries that are not green (car free) or are unreferenced. The list was copied from , so it would be still accessible in this form for those who are interested. --Ita140188 (talk) 21:33, 6 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal to remove all the non-green entries 

message: Old Jerusalem is not in Israel, so it can not be categorized as "Israel" in the country list. --Supreme Deliciousness (talk) 05:23, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: What do you think about "Palestinian territory"? --Ita140188 (talk) 05:43, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: "Palestinian territory" or "Occupied Palestinian territory" are correct names that should be used. --Supreme Deliciousness (talk) 05:50, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Old Jerusalem 

message: I think there should be some kind of inclusion criteria. To simply say that it's any island where people live and cars aren't allowed is very broad. There are almost certainly dozens or hundreds of such islands in the United States alone, so I think that we ought to be a bit more specific. Perhaps it would be necessary to say that islands need to have more than one residence (i.e. Just Room Enough Island would not count). On Loggerhead Key, there used to be a lighthouse there, which had residences for some lighthouse keepers; but since the only rights-of-way on the entire island are footpaths going a total distance of a few hundred feet, it seems extremely unlikely that there were ever cars on the island. But including every little island that has/had a lighthouse on it would be somewhat absurd. Thoughts? jp×g 21:41, 24 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Any inhabited island" is way too broad