Drivers see red over Oslo's 'war on cars' to go green

OSLO - Determined to go green, Oslo is slowly but surely ridding its city center of motorists, angering some who say the "war on cars" is putting the brakes on individual freedoms.

"We have to give the city back to the people, so children can play safely, so elderly people can have more benches to sit on," argues Hanna Marcussen outside Oslo's City Hall, its cobblestone square recently blocked off to traffic.

"In order to do that, you have to get rid of cars, which take up a disproportionate amount of space," the Greens city councilor in charge of urban development says.