Umea blockade

9 Feb­ru­ary. Some 30 activists put up a block­ade in the mid­dle of the high­way run­ning through Umeå, the largest city in north­ern Swe­den. Recent stud­ies have found the high­est con­cen­tra­tions of car­bon diox­ide ever record­ed in Umeå, due to increas­ing traf­fic, while Sweden’s car park remains the most fuel-guz­zling in the EU. Kli­max-Umeå demands a rapid expan­sion of pub­lic trans­porta­tion in the city and an end to sub­si­diz­ing new roads. The block­ade last­ed for half an hour, wreak­ing con­sid­er­able chaos in the inner city traf­fic