Survey: What are You Doing on Car Free Day?
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 09.22.07
So it is Car Free Day, which should be important to TreeHuggers since cars are such a big part of our environmental problems. It seems almost intractable; for most of North America our society is built around the car. Could we live without them? Even for a day? (thanks, Matt)
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Its raining today. My pathetic excuse. And its a weekend. I hardly ever use my car on weekdays, living three blocks from a train station.
We need an "Every day is car free day for me" option!
I'll be in a car today - the one plus is that I'm carpooling. It's my niece's birthday, and my mother passes within a mile of my house on the way to my niece's, so going together makes a lot of sense.
But most days are car-free for me. My husband and I own one car, and I walk my daughter to school. I've become very efficient with errands ever since my old car broke down beyond resonable repair and we got rid of it. Having just one car in the family really is not that bad.
Not surprising that a majority of Treehugger readers are not driving on Carfree Day. I wonder how many of us are spreading the word as well.
Nearly every day is car-free day for me: I don't own one! I live in a North-Eastern American city, and though our public transit is crap, I rarely need to go more than 10 miles on a trip. Why waste the money on a car when I can go that distance faster on a bike!?!
On the rare trip to IKEA or the like I'll go with the gf in her corolla, but only because I can't afford an xtracycle (www.xtracycle.com), much less a stokemonkey (http://cleverchimp.com/products/stokemonkey/)
where is the calendar that tells me when "talk like a pirate day" and "car-free day" are? i really need it.
I rode my bike. The funny thing was, last week at work someone put flyers on the vehicles in the car park. You're probably wondering where the funny part is??? The flyers were for publicising Ride To Work Day.
They put the flyers on the bicycles (mine included). I was riding the elevator with another cyclist from a different cempany in the same building and when we got to our bikes, I commented on how these (flyers) should be on the cars, not our bikes.
Not really a option for me. Our public transportation only works M-F, goes till 6pmish and goes to very random select places, mostly factories and places to work
I'm car free everyday!
I gave up a company car and changed job to allow me to cycle. The torrential rain this morning was not a reason to drive, just another reason to live.