The Car Ban That Increased SmogWhy a restriction policy made the air worse
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When Rewards BackfireDiscover how restriction-based incentives can accidentally amplify the issues they aim to fix. Mexico City banned cars one day a week to cut pollution, hoping citizens would use public transit. Instead, residents purchased inefficient second vehicles to skirt the rule, creating a paradox where a law designed to clean the air actually filled it with more emissions.
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