Quote:
Originally Posted by Tweety
The concept is pretty simple... Not to remove the cars, but to get people to discover the alternative...
|
It's just a day where a minority imposes its utopian views upon a majority.
Quote:
|
To have them actually try the bus/train routes to work before dismissing it as unpractical...
|
I work fully continuous shifts in the Antwerp harbour.
It's Belgium's main economic centre, but you can't even get there with public transport - not at the odd hours that I work, not at the more regular hours.
I could use my employer's bus system, but I can't get to one of the bus stops using public transport either.
If I could use public transportation, my employer expects me to show up even when the public transport employees go on strike
It'd be a good thing if the hypocrisy of these so-called car-free days could end right here.
The traffic jams are just as bad if not worse than on a regular day !
What's the point after all when huge numbers of people take their cars and drive to the edge of a city centre to go biking or walking in the car-free centres ????