This passage is about a germany mom from the suburban pioneers where the commuting executives have gone before they given up their cars street parking , driveways also home garages are generally forbidden in this experimental new district on the outskirts for freiburg near the french and swiss borders vaubans streets are completely car free the main thoroughfare where the tram to downtown freiburg runs the few streets on one edge of the community ownership is allowed there are only two places to a larger park with alot of money you can buy a space with 40,000, with a home on the side. Vauban completed in 2006 is an example of a growing trend in rurope the united states and elsewhere to separte suburban life from auto use as a compnent of a movement called planning smart all of our development since world war ii has been centered on the car and that will have to change the guy david said of the transportation for america a fast growing coalition of hundreds of groups coaliton of hundreds of groups in the united states who are promoting new communities that are less dependent on cars thye said about the hybrid and things like that. In the united states the environmental protection agency is promoting car reduced communities and legislators are starting to act if cautiously many experts public transport serving suburbs to play a much larger role in a new six year federal transportation bill to be approved this year mr goldberg said previous bills 80 percent of appropriations have 20 percetnt to other transport. Diesel fuel was blamed since france has tax policy that favors diesel over gasoline make up to 67 percent of vehicles in france compared to a 53.3 percent average of diesel engines in the rest of western furope according  to reuters