Smog-choked Delhi gears up for car ban

New Delhi

MILLIONS of Delhi residents will have to find alternative ways to get to work from Friday, when the authorities launch a trial of draconian traffic restrictions to try to clean up the world's most polluted capital.

Private cars will be banned from the roads on alternate days from Jan 1 as part of a slew of measures aimed at reducing smog levels that include shutting some coal-fired power plants and vacuuming roads to reduce dust.