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Rails to Trails (RTC) has published a comprehensive report on the benefits of an infrastructure based on walkways and bikeways across America. Currently the U.S. Government funds such projects with approximately $453 million every year to help expand and repair these convenient paths....
That’s right – Yom Kippur. A somber day of introspection in most of Israel, in mellow Tel Aviv the Day of Atonement is the closest thing to a day without cars in the Middle East. With all cars banished from the pavements for 25 hours, helmet-clad children take to the streets in their masses.
Park(ing) Day New York City 2008
Lloyd wrote a post earlier today about Park(ing) Day in NYC. If you are not familiar with the concept, check it out.
The video below was made by our friends at StreetFilms. They went to the 'liberated' parking spots around New York to show what imaginative citizens did. Looks like they had a great time! Read on for the video and tons of photos from some of the coolest spots....
We're big fans of Weber Thompson's Terry Thomas Building in Seattle; it is the new office building that acts like an old one, with windows in the bathrooms, no air conditioning and all kinds of simple yet very clever solutions. Trust them to come up with a creative response to Park(ing) Day as well. ...
TreeHugger likes all initiatives that put people - and smart people-moving transport - over cars, that's nothing new. But not even we, and presumably none of the people who valiantly organize Car-Free Days in cities circling the globe, imagine a world without any cars - the motto seems a little more 'less car' than 'car less'.
Car-Free Day scary threat to Big Auto?
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