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Car Free Days - A Good Way To Fish For Good Transportation by Mar’a Camila Morales submitted: 2000-02-20 Pedicab Drivers Sue Governor Sutiyoso for Operating Ban by A. Rahman Paul BARTER submitted: 2000-02-20 Website Covers Car-Free Day Actions Worldwide by Eric Britton submitted: 2000-02-20 Evolution of a BAD Show Topic for Oprah by Biker-X submitted: 2000-02-12 Italy Bans Cars For One Day In 150 City Centres by Loris Tissino submitted: 2000-02-11 Oprah Wondering if Bicyclists Are Endangering Safety of Motorists! by Brian List submitted: 2000-02-09 Bike Commuting: A Better Way to Travel by Paul Dorn submitted: 2000-02-03 Art Students' Polar Bike Gives New Meaning To 'extreme Cycling' by Byron Spice submitted: 2000-02-01 Drivers Who Kill Could Be Investigated For Murder by Stewart Tendler submitted: 2000-02-01 NYC Mayor Responds To Spike In Cycling Deaths by Kristen Fountain submitted: 2000-01-18 |
Website Covers Car-Free Day Actions Worldwide [20 February 2000] Eric Britton A very useful Newsletter on Car Free Day developments in Europe has just been posted by Richard Evans of the ETA Car Free Day group. It is available directly at www.ecoplan.org. if you first click the UK Car Free Day link on the menu (toward the bottom), and from thence to #31, Newsletter No. 11. One of the primary goals of our @World Car Free Day site from the outset has been to use the technologies at our disposal to be sure that information and materials on our important subject are not unnecessarily isolated. There is a basic philosophical and we think highly practical reason for doing this. Having watched many important and quite possible sustainable transportation innovations be held up by a combination of indifference, narrow thinking, bureaucracy and power brokerage over the last three decades, it has been one of our driving goals not only in this program but all of our Access on the Web sites to do whatever we can do to break out of these binding but entirely unnecessary traps. Hence we both make a major and continuing effort to link and network with ALL the programs, sites and groups anywhere in the world that are trying to advance or fill out the Car Free Day agenda, irrespective of geographic focus, language or approach to the issues (even though we do have our own rather firm ideas on the subject). The UK/ETA program is just one example among many. One of the linking devices that we are using is the Search function which you will see at the base of the menu on the site. It captures the content of more than a dozen of the most active related programs, world wide. Given it a try with a couple of sample words or phrases (and if you need a few clues as to how to get full use out of it, just click the Search/Research link at the top of the menu for useful pointers.) And if you can think of any other important sources of information on our topic which we are thus far missing out, let us know and we'll try to do better. And as I look at the Bogot' section of the site just as I sign off here, I note that there are exactly 4 days, 20 hours, and 32 minutes left before the world's biggest, boldest, baddest Car Free Day project to date closes off the streets to private cars and seven million people take their first breath of a new life. Light a candle for Bogot'. ecopl@n ___ technology, economy, society ___ Le Frene, 8/10 rue Joseph Bara, 75006 Paris, France URL: www.ecoplan.org Voice/Videoconference +331.4441.6340 (1-4) Voicemail/Fax hotline: Europe +331 5301 2896 Voicemail/Fax hotline: North America +1 888 522 6419 (toll free) |