Car-Free Day
Sign in to saveAlso known as World Car Free Day, No Car Day, Car-Free
day promoting car-free travel
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Within Vinony's link graph, Car-Free Day is referenced by 60 other articles, and connects out to France, Europe and China.
It is catalogued under topics including 1973 oil crisis, Car-free movement and Environmental awareness days.
Its subject is documented across 34 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- world day
- Part of
- car-free movement
- Main subject
- road transport
- Image
- Car-free-Day08-1.jpg
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- inception
- 1999-09-22
- Commons category
- Car-Free Days
- day in year for periodic occurrence
- September 22
- hashtag
- CarFreeDay
- start time
- 1994-00-00
- commemorates
- Car-Free Day
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Encyclopedic overview
A car free day on Dizengoff Street, in Tel Aviv, Israel On car-free days, people are encouraged either through state policy or by societal consensus to travel by means other than cars. Some cities, like Jakarta and Tehran, have weekly car-free days. Other such days are annual. World Car Free Day is celebrated on September 22. Organized events are held in some cities and countries. In Israel, the holiday of Yom Kippur is regarded as a car free day through societal consensus without official policy enforcement.
Jakarta weekly Car Free Day, 2024The events, which vary by location, give motorists and commuters an idea of their locality with fewer cars. The concept dates from the 1970s but was popularised in the 1990s. Tel Aviv has had a car free day due to Yom Kippur since 1935. Brussels Car Free Day, 2022Currently Bogotá holds the world's largest car-free weekday event covering the entire city. The first car-free day was held in February 2000 and became institutionalised through a public referendum.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Car-Free Day” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.