[sustran] RE: Brainpower needed

[Noland, Robert]

I would suggest:  "A Day without Congestion", mainly because 
congestion is the primary transport issue perceived by people in 
the U.S.

Bob Noland
Centre for Transport Studies
Imperial College, London

-----Original Message-----
From: SUSTRAN Network Secretariat [mailto:sustran at po.jaring.my]
Sent: Friday, March 03, 2000 9:09 AM
To: sustran-discuss at jca.ax.apc.org
Cc: alt-transp at flora.org; carfreeday at egroups.com
Subject: Re: Brainpower needed


At 17:28 2/03/00 +0100, tabnet wrote:
>We are trying hard to arrange some high profile, successful follow-ups to
>last week's impressive Bogotá  Car Free Day experience, including in North
>America.  This note concerns a specific problem we face if we are ever
going
>to make some near term inroads there.  Here's the problem that we need your
>help with.

1. Some more name suggestions: 
Traffic Reduction Day
Less Traffic Day
Traffic Free Day
(trying to get away from just 'car' since in this part of the world traffic
is a lot more mixed than in europe or north america). 


2. Another Follow-up suggestion. 

Is it time to organise (unilaterally declare?) an INTERNATIONAL "car free"
or "traffic free" or "traffic reduction" (or whatever) day?????? 

As Eric has appealed, it would need a catchy name that conveys a simple
idea yet captures the range of possibilities - from pro-walking,
pro-cycling, pro-pedicab, pro-public transport, anti-air-pollution,
anti-traffic - the fact that we believe that cities and towns can have
BETTER TRANSPORT WITH LESS TRAFFIC.

This might be a nice project to give a sense of common purpose to all the
multifarious advocates of change all over the world all working in various
ways to achieve equitable transport systems that engender better health,
safety, choice, access and ecological sustainability.  Each local group
could organise events and together we could really capture the attention of
the international media and alert everyone that this movement really has
some momentum. Events could include, but not be limited to, many
simultaneous "car free" days all over the world.

If there is any enthusiasm for this idea then a few of us could form a work
team to make it happen.  Any volunteers?

Paul



A. Rahman Paul BARTER
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