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In 2010, ahead of the 100th birthday celebrations for Madrid's Gran Vía, architect Miguel Oriol produced plans for a makeover of the Spanish capital's most iconic thoroughfare: his scheme saw cars mostly banished and the 1.3 km street turned into a lush garden. 
The centenary celebrations came and went without anything happening with that scheme, which would have involved creating a huge subterranean tunnel and a massive parking lot under the street (because it was 2010 and the idea of actually banishing cars was #TooCrazy).
During her brief spell heading Madrid's City Hall (2015-2019), progressive mayor Manuela Carmena concluded that, in lieu of a big dig project, it made more sense to adopt on-surface measures to squeeze cars out of the central street. Lanes were reduced, sidewalks expanded.
