September 22 is World Car Free Day, an annual event seeking to celebrate and encourage alternatives to automobile transportation, such as mass transit or bicycles. Britannica has a number of related resources including in-depth articles on the history of transporation and transportation economics.
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This is a great opportunity to mention that wikipedia has an article about the day itself and related initiatives. :)
Comment by Mathias Schindler — September 23, 2005 @ 7:54 am
It does indeed have a brief article and a nice list of links. For some reason, Mathias’s link to WP didn’t make it through the comment processing, so here is the URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_Free_Day
Comment by eblogger — September 23, 2005 @ 2:31 pm