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[julian_w]

"Let World Carfree Day be a showcase for just how our cities might look like, feel like, and sound like without cars�365 days a year.

"As the climate heats up, World Carfree Day is the perfect time to take the heat off the planet, and put it on city planners and politicians to give priority to cycling, walking and public transport, instead of to the automobile."

http://www.worldcarfree.net/wcfd/

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"The events, which vary by location, give motorists and commuterists an idea of their local with fewer cars. While projects along these lines had taken place from time to time on an ad hoc basis starting with the 1973/74 �oil crisis�, it was only in October 1994 that a structured call for such projects was issued in a keynote speech by Eric Britton at the International Ciudades Accesibles (Accessible Cities) Conference held in Toledo (Spain). Thursday: A Breakthrough Strategy for Reducing Car Dependence in Cities

"Within two years the first Days were organized in Reykjav�k (Iceland), Bath (Britain) and La Rochelle (France), and the informal World Car Free Days Consortium was organized in 1995 to support Car-Free Days world wide. The first national campaign was inaugurated in Britain by the Environmental Transport Association in 1997, the French followed suit in 1998 as In town, without my car! and was established as a Europe-wide initiative by the European Commission in 2000. ..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_Free_Days

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[andrewchon]

damn... I thought you wrote Carefree day.

I bet the Koreans will ignore tree-hugger day.