How It Works
The 1994 Car Free Day Call set out a challenge for a city, neighborhood or group:
- • To spend one carefully prepared day without cars.
- • To study and observe closely what exactly goes on during that day.
- • Then, to reflect publicly and collectively on the lessons of this experience and on what might be prudently and creatively done next to build on these.
The exercise considered car users to be "addicts" who need to be "treated" in some way. The organisers considered this to mean that motorists should have no choice but to be without cars, at least for a time. In this particular instance the proposed "treatment" was to find an answer to the following question in three main parts:
- • Is it possible to get drivers out of their cars in one or more cities...
- • In ways that will be tolerable in a pluralistic democracy...
- • For at least long enough to demonstrate what needs to happen to make a car-less (or, more accurately, less-car) urban transport paradigm actually work?
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