| May 1st 2001. Melbourne Car Free Day |
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Free The City
On May 1st 2001 Melbourne's CBD will be closed to traffic.
Cars destroy our social environments.
Most of our city space is devoted to cars in the form of car parks or
bitumen
roads. Their noise disrupts our ability to converse. Pollutants from
exhausts
are a concoction of deadly and in some cases, fatal toxins.
They are the cause of much illness such as asthma and cancer. Exhaust
fumes
are a major contributor to greenhouse gases which are radically messing
with
our planet's ecology.
Cities designed around private automotive transport are inefficient and
stifle
their own economies. Destinations become further away. Our planet cannot
sustain the impact private transport systems have on non-renewable
resources.
Cars are simply an anti-social, out dated mode of transport.
For more information consult:
The Next Big Car Free Event
Postmaster@ecoplan.org
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