to a car-free city?

In Singapore, the cars are displayed behind glass, like museum collectibles. Relics of a time when the automobile was still triumphant. The city-state of nearly 6 million inhabitants leads a vigorous anti-car policy to limit traffic jams and pollution, the scourges of contemporary cities. In April 2021, Christophe Natter arrived with his family in Singapore. Coming from Tours (Indre-et-Loire), this senior executive discovered the city’s urban mobility policy with some astonishment.

Exorbitant prices

In fact, car parks are rather expensive, gasoline is 2.15 euros per litre, and urban tolls everywhere. The essential is not there, it is in the exorbitant price of cars in Singapore. For the same model, count two to three more expensive than in France. Cars are a luxury, even at used car dealerships. In Singapore, every driver must pay for a kind of license to own a vehicle, the COE. As a result, in the city-state, the number of cars per inhabitant is one of the lowest in the world. The city has developed a very efficient public transport network.