ban cars from shopping centres

[Vik-Nik-Sor]

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Quite a few towns are now banning cars from their shopping centres.
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It's about the prohibition against selling cars? Or something else?
Thank you

 

[Gillnetter]

quite
Quite a few towns are now banning cars from their shopping centres.
Longman dictionary
It's about the prohibition against selling cars? Or something else?
Thank you

Cars are not allowed in shopping centers.

 

[Roman55]

I am not a teacher.

I imagine it's about keeping the shopping centres reserved for pedestrians.

 

[Vik-Nik-Sor]

Could you please explain more in detail? I still don't understand what shopping centres have to do with cars. Does it refer to parking lots belonging to shopping centres?
"Cars are not allowed in shopping centers" - what does that mean...
"shopping centres reserved for pedestrians" - I don't understand it either. It's like car driver discrimination?

 

[Boris Tatarenko]

Same here.

"Cars are not allowed in shopping centers" means to me that I can drive my car at a shopping center. If I imagine it, it's quite strange. :-o
Probably, it's about parking.

 

[bhaisahab]

Many town centre shopping areas are pedestrianised; cars are not allowed. Have a look at this link: https://www.google.com/search?q=ped...7r7BMGAPfewgZgO&ved=0CDkQsAQ&biw=1215&bih=927

 

[Boris Tatarenko]

Oh, they're not shopping centries in our countries. :-o

 

[Raymott]

Oh, they're not shopping centries in our countries. :-o

Nor here. A "shopping centre" is usually a large single building with several floors and escalators.
But in this context, it's easily understandable not to mean that.

 

[Tdol]

I'd call those pictures town centres rather than shopping centres.