car free day
international |
environment |
opinion/analysis 
Friday September 19, 2003 17:22
by dunk - FUSPEY
02092997 at brookes dot ac dot uk
DUB
international car free day is happening in 3 days, monday 22nd of september
What is a sustainable city ?
In more than 20 European countries over 88 million European citizens will be taking part in a wide range of activities dedicated to the promotion of sustainable mobility and transport modes. “In town without my car!” day (Car Free Day) is falling on a working day, Monday 22 September, which is in 3 days time
This year, the Car Free Day will be celebrated in more than 1100 European cities and towns, with 936 participating and 265 supporting cities.
You can find out what’s going on in other areas at
http://www.22september.org/part/en/natsit.html
Many cities around Europe will be closing off large parts of the city centre to cars and public transport will run for free.
In Dublin the city council are closing off no roads (i talked to the chief organiser) and they are not encouraging people to do too much stuff. I could only find 2 pieces about the day on their website and they were both hard to find
http://www.dublincity.ie/news2.htm
As a result we will have a RTS (reclaim the streets) protest party here in Dublin. We feel the city council should be doing more, so in protest we will be blocking off a street and with that trying to get the message across to people that we really must DO something about CO2 emissions and cities gridlocked with cars. Other nodes around Europe will have similar events. Members of the green party have supported these actions in the past
http://www.freewebs.com/rts-dublin/index.html is the RTS dublin website
We really need to explore further the question of transport and the city.