More trees, fewer cars can have positive impact on mental health FMTNews FMTLifestyle
Barcelona intends to continue making the city streets greener while reducing traffic, which can have a positive impact on residents’ mental health.
Originally, these zones were created to make certain streets calmer, quieter and less polluted. The idea was to redesign intersections and parking spaces, turning them into bike paths, playgrounds and small neighborhood squares. A first survey in 2021 reported that inhabitants of these neighbourhoods felt more relaxed and took advantage of the calm to interact more with each other, thus reducing feelings of isolation, in addition suffering less from the pollution associated with automobile traffic.
Each year, the initiative could prevent an estimated 14% of cases of self-perceived poor mental health, and reduce by 13% the number of visits to mental health specialists. It could also reduce the use of antidepressants by 13% and sedatives by 8%.
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