[SBC] World carfree day

[Ron Newman]

From: "K Molloy" <kmolloy at gmail.coma>
Date: July 17, 2006 12:10:52 PM EDT
To: "Ron Newman" <rnewman at thecia.net>,  "alanjane at highstream.net"  
<alanjane at highstream.net>
Subject: world carfree day

Hi Ron and Alan,

I've just proposed that STEP start acknowledging international World
Carfree Day (22 Sept). Seems like natural for bike groupsand other
local alt-transportation groups to participate in too.

I'm amazed that only a handful of US cities participate (Portland Ore,
Boulder, etc.). I'm also amazed that I'd never head of it until this
year.

We will be discussing what STEP can do for this year at our next STEP  
meeting
(24 July).

Links to International World Carfree Day sites are below.

http://www.worldcarfree.net/wcfd/
http://www.worldcarfree.net/wcfd/links.php
http://www.ecoplan.org/carfreeday/

It would be great if Somerville or Boston/Cambridge/Somerville area
could be official
participants in 2007, but we could start the effort now. What we can do
for this year is scalable => getting it on the radar of all local
alt-trans/enviromental/bike/ped groups.

What do you think? Is this something that the Somerville Bike
Committee could support?

Karen
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Karen Molloy
kmolloy at gmail.com