Bugün öğrendim ki: Michigan'daki Mackinac Adası ada konseyinin 1980 Christopher Reeve filmi 'Zamanında Bir Yerde' (acil durum araçları dışında) arabalar yasak olduğu için adaya araba getirmek için özel izin vermesi gerekiyordu. Yapım için getirilen arabalar çekim alanlarıyla sınırlıydı.
Out of more than 4 million miles of public roadway in the United States, there's an 8-mile stretch on Mackinac Island that stands apart. M-185 is the only state highway in the country where motor vehicles are not allowed. Instead, the traffic on the road that circles the outer rim of [Mackinac Island consists of pedestrians, bicyclists and horse-drawn carriages](https://www.mackinacisland.org/visit/getting-around/). You might say that M-185 is almost one in a million. Then again, Mackinac Island is one of a kind. But it could have turned out much differently had Mackinac Island not taken steps to ban “horseless carriages” more than 120 years ago. It was at the end of the 19th century that the fledgling auto industry was emerging, headquartered in Michigan with Oldsmobile in Lansing and Ford in Detroit. By that time, horse-drawn carriages already had been giving tours of beautiful Mackinac Island for over three decades. They were a key feature of Mackinac Island's transition from a military outpost and center of Great Lakes fur trade into a popular travel destination. When a smattering of motor vehicles first started appearing on Mackinac Island, a [group of carriage men petitioned the village council to prohibit the “dangerous horseless carriages”](https://www.mict.com/history.html) that were frightening their horses. Village leaders enacted the ban on July 6, 1898 and it has stayed in place to this day! As automobiles became ubiquitous in the 20th century, the lack of motor vehicles on Mackinac Island has given the place a special character that makes it truly feel like a vacation escape.