Car Free Day Columbus seeks to challenge
residents of central Ohio to consider and experience the benefits of
a variety of travel options to meet daily travel needs.
In doing so, Car Free Day Columbus promotes greater understanding
of the impacts of individual travel and encourages residents to
rediscover our community through more local travel and destination
choices.Car Free Day is an international event
to be celebrated on Wednesday, September 22, 2004. The
date was initiated by
The
Commons, a Paris-based organization, which
strives to bring about awareness of technology
and its impacts on people and their
daily lives, to promote walking, bicycling, and mass transit.
Approximately 822 cities around the world participated in the
first International Car Free Day celebrations in April 2001
including here in Columbus, OH, Boston,
MA, Memphis, TN, Berkley and Los Angeles, CA, Mexico City, Mexico,
Geneva, Switzerland, and Madrid, Spain. Each city uniquely
celebrates this day; therefore, it is the role of each local
community to plan and execute Car Free Day objectives, concepts,
and events.
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