01Done
Filter
Six modal filters at the ring-road gates. Buses, bikes and blue lights pass; through-traffic turns back.
LIVE · 1.8 KM² CAR-FREE · 38 SENSORS
A city centre that breathes again.
Open Core is Vessmark’s public console for its car-free old town — every closed street, every bollard and every hour of air, reported as it happens and open to the people who live here.
- NO₂ · annual mean
- 18µg/m³
- −41% since closure
- Street noise · daytime
- 52dB(A)
- −9 dB at façade
inner-ring.liveWhole core
Car-free streetRing roadFilter gateBikes · live
Today on the streets
Street timelineThu 2 Oct
- 05:30
Delivery window opens
- 10:00
Bollards down — Weavers’ Row
LIVE - 14:10
School street — Lindenschule
- 19:00
Evening terraces — River Quay
Resident requests2 open
MKWeavers’ Row 14
JSKornstraße
Instrumentshourly
Air · Weavers’ Row
NO₂ at 08:00
22 µg/m³ · WHO line 10
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Tram · Line 3
Every 6 minutes
Quay → Linden · next in 4 min
THE CHARTER · FOUR MOVES
From kerb to commons. Slowly, in public.
02Done
Trial
Paint, planters and loose seating for ninety days. Anything that fails is moved by Monday.
03Running
Count
38 street sensors log footfall, NO₂ and noise every hour — published raw, here, before anyone spins it.
04Next
Rebuild
Kerbs come out, stone goes down, drains learn to take rain. Weavers’ Row first, spring 2027.
CIRCULATION
Six loops. No shortcuts.
Every address is still reachable by car from the ring road — you just can’t drive through the core to get somewhere else. Six loops, each with one way in and the same way out.
Trips into the core, by modeSep 2026
- Walking46%
- Cycling29%
- Tram & bus18%
- Car7%
1,240
cargo-bike drops / day
+31%
ground-floor footfall
0
shops closed for access
YOUR STREET
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