A Car Free Day encourages motorists to give up their car for a day.
Organized events are held in some cities and countries. September 22 is World Car Free Day.
According to The Washington Post, the event "promotes improvement of mass transit,
cycling and walking, and the development of communities where jobs are closer to home
and where shopping is within walking distance".
How it works
• To spend one carefully prepared day without cars.
• To study and observe closely what exactly goes on during that day.
• Then, to reflect publicly and collectively on the lessons of this experience
and on what might be prudently and creatively done next to build on these.
The exercise considered car users to be "addicts" who need to be "treated" in some way.
The organisers considered this to mean that motorists should have no choice but to be without cars,
at least for a time. In this particular instance the proposed "treatment" was to find an answer
to the following question in three main parts:
• Is it possible to get drivers out of their cars in one or more cities...
• In ways that will be tolerable in a pluralistic democracy...
• For at least long enough to demonstrate what needs to happen to make a car-less (or, more accurately, less-car) urban transport paradigm actually work?
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