dates for world car free day

[Rebecca Prince]

The proposal for late September sounds great for
Sydney in any other year than 2000. This year,
however, the Olympics are on around that time, and
with the huge amounts of tourists expected in and
around the city, it may well be that the car free day
would not be feasible.

Rebecca

--- SUSTRAN Network Secretariat <sustran at po.jaring.my>
wrote:
> I am amazed and encouraged by the response,
> especially from Car Busters who
> have clearly been working on this for some time! I
> just received their
> latest e-bulletin which also details their proposal
> for a World Car Free Day!
> 
> Concerning dates:
> 
> Carbusters wrote:
> >So, we thought to move the day forward to Thursday
> 21 September.  With
> 
> and "Lanyon, Ryan" <lanyonry at rmoc.on.ca> wrote:
> >'Clean Air Day' is already an event sponsored by
> Environment Canada, it
> >just so happens to be the Wednesday of Envrionment
> Week/Commuter
> > Challenge each year.  This year's events take
> place from June 5-9,
> > with Clean Air Day happening on June 7.
> 
> It would be nice (but not essential) to find a date
> when most of the global
> population is enjoying moderate weather - because we
> hope to give as many
> people as possible a chance to have a positive
> initial
> walking/cycling/public transport experience. 
> 
> Fortunately, the Car Busters proposal for late
> September seems to be OK
> weatherwise. And building on momentum of the
> already-declared European
> event seems like a very good idea.  September could
> still be pretty hot in
> much of southwest Asia (eg the Arabian Gulf) but in
> most other parts of the
> world I think Sept 21 would probably have pretty
> good weather, on average.
> This date also avoids major university and school
> examination times in most
> places (as far as I know). October may be the month
> with the best overall
> average weather around the populated parts of the
> world - which may explain
> why October is already so crowded with
> "international days". March might
> also be OK I think (but April and May are too hot in
> monsoon and desert
> parts of northern hemisphere). 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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