Organize a first-rate CFD. Get the nose of the camel under the tent.



World Car-Free Days Collaborative
Cities around the world are beginning to work with this ice-breaking sustainability approach. It's not research or theory; it is policy and practice. But proper preparations and follow-up are critical for success. WCFD offers information, discussion space and an open forum for ideas, exchange and collaboration for people who care about sustainable transport and aren't afraid to work at it.

2006 Global Car Free/Days Rethink
Twelve years have suddenly passed since the first public CFD challenge was issued in an international conference in Toledo, Spain. We have since seen a certain amount of CFD activity going on here and there once or twice a year. But what about the actual accomplishments? The impacts on the city? Is it time to look again? We think so, and we believe this is something we should do together.

WCFDs News Alerts
The internet gives unprecedented opportunities to stay abreast of latest Car-Free day developments world wide. This handy tool provides one click overviews of latest developments, automatically updated by Google on a real time basis. Check it out with your morning coffee and get ready to rethink your thinking about car free days and how to make them work in your city.

Car-Free Day Timeline
Beginning in the fifties and mainly in the States back then as the first ill-clad doughty local groups began to assemble here and there in order to protest the intrusions of cars in their cities and neighborhoods, here are some of the main benchmarks which we have culled from our own observations and experience over this period.

CFDs in Action
In this section of the site you have one-click access to all of the international, national, and city programs known to us to this date. Are we missing anything important here? And which of these is a good source for information and insight on how to make a CFD a success. If so, this is the time and place to let us know. (Section to be updated.)




United Nations Car-Free Days Program
The Commons was approached by the UN in 2001 to lead this cooperative program in preparation for the World Summit on Sustainable Development. This program has made some useful first contributions, but now needs to be re-examined, overhauled and redirected in order to achieve its ambitious objectives. Negotiations & hard thinking in process. Your views?

Getting started: Ready, Fire, Aim?
Great idea! But be warned: it is not nearly as easy as may appear at first glance. It is not that it so difficult to organize and do something along these lines. Indeed many have, all too often without a great deal of effort - or meaningful accomplishment!. But take courage! Others have managed to do a good job of this in the past, and surely you can too. So let's start to make it work right here.

New Mobility Agenda
Unconstrained by bureaucracy, economic interests or schedules, New Mobility was launched in 1988 as an open international platform for critical discussion, exchanges of materials and views, and diverse forms of cross-border collaboration on the challenging, necessarily conflicted topic of "sustainable transportation and social justice".

The Commons
Pioneering new concepts for activists, community groups, entrepreneurs and business; increasing the uncomfort zone for hesitant administrators and politicians; and through our long term world wide collaborative efforts, energy and personal choices, placing them and ourselves firmly on the path to a more sustainable and more just world.
Stockholm Partnerships for Sustainable Cities
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