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Ontario
Sixth Annual Local Motion Car Free Festival
Organizer: Waterloo Public Interest Research Group
- Date: Sunday September 14th
Location: Victoria Park, Kitchener ON
Events planned so far: Walk, bike, bus, or even ride your unicycle down to Victoria Park on Sunday September 14th between NOON and 5:00 pm and enjoy an educational celebration of alternative transportation options set in a fun, family friendly atmosphere. Learn more about how you and your family can reduce your environmental impact through your transportation choices.
Activities include: Live Music, Corn Roast, Free Bike Tune-ups, Bike Safety Demonstrations, Wacky Bikes to Ride, Skate Park, Children's Entertainment and Educational Area, And so much more!
- Date: Friday September 19th
Location: University of Waterloo
Events planned so far: Leave the car at home! Walk, bike, or use your WATCard to take the bus to school today! Join us in the SLC Courtyard and discover what alternative transportation options are available to you and what the student groups on campus are doing to help you make the right decisions when it comes to your mobility. Learn more about how you can reduce your ecological footprint through the transportation choices you make.
Activities include: UW Bike Shop: Bike Auction, Free Bike Maintenance Workshop, Bike Forest: Wacky Bikes to Ride, "How many environmentalist can you fit on a GRT Bus?" , Design Your Sustainable City: A workshop with Andrew Hunter of RENDER, Free Corn Roast, And so much more!
Contact e-mail: carfree@wpirg.org
Web address: Local Motion Car Free Festival
Celebrate International CAR FREE DAY in Toronto
- Date: Sunday Sept. 21
Cyclists meet at 4 p.m. at Bloor and Spadina
Paraders meet at 4 p.m. at Trinity Bellwoods Park (Queen and Strachan)
We'll join forces for a massive street party at a secret location
Supported by: Take the Tooker Bells on Bloor Streets are for People
For more info: greenspi@web.ca, info@streetsareforpeople.org http://www.streetsareforpeople.org/blog/ http://www.takethetooker.ca
- Date: Monday Sept. 22 Dundas Square (Yonge and Dundas) 10 - 2 p.m. Yonge street opening to bikes/peds and closed to motorized traffic - car-free booths, entertainment and more Supported by Sierra Club http://www.carfreeday.ca/
Take the Car Free Day Challenge
This fall, we challenge you to start a new routine: Ride Transit! Join us at the Car Free Day festival on September 21 Central Library Square � 11 am - 4 pm
- Free family entertainment
- Learn about sustainable transportation options in the City
- Take the Car Free Day Challenge at www.smartcommutemiss.ca to enter a draw for great prizes
- Pledge to take transit on September 22, get a custom Trip Plan and your first ride is on us!
For more details visit www.smartcommutemiss.ca
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In honor of World Car-Free Day, Cranbrook Elementary Schools are teaming up and promoting a 1km public walk..come out and support the noise/emission free streets!
