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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.

2008 Global Car Free/Days Rethink

Fourteen years have 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.

Lots less cars in cities - Let's talk about it

The Lots Less Cars in Cities Idea Factory. What we are looking at here is not quite zero cars (in most places) but, let us say, many fewer cars in our cities, a more tranquil environment, and a lot more safe and happy people. Think this requires economic and life quality sacrifices? Think again. Get the transport model in proper shape and your city will boom. Check it out.

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.

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.

Tell us about your 2008 Car Free Days
The survey is laid out to provide quick trouble-free feedback, and is intended to serve people who have direct knowledge of and/or experience in organizing or participating in CFDs. If you are in a hurry, the Three Minute Survey consists of the ten quick identifier questions that will help the world know about what your city and group are up to. Let you good example be widely known.

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".

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