World Car Free Day – Epping Forest District Council

World Car Free Day is an annual occasion held on 22 September every year. We are encouraging residents to participate on this occasion as a part of a spread of measures designed to enhance each native air high quality and our well being.

Did that almost all of automobile journeys taken are for lower than 2 miles?

Do it’s essential use your car for as many journeys as you at present do?

Think about what adjustments you may make to your routine to participate in World Car Free Day. You might discover going automobile free is less complicated than you thought and that it gives different advantages that you just hadn’t beforehand thought of.

Discover your neighborhood

On World Car Free Day uncover your neighborhood exterior your automobile and luxuriate in the advantages it has to supply.

Councillor Paul Keska, Regulatory Services Portfolio Holder

What are you able to do to keep away from or cut back your automobile use?

Walk quick journeys

• Do you reside near your youngsters’s college? Walking, scooting or driving a motorbike are cheaper environmental choices for transport
• If your purchasing suits in a bag or trolley, stroll to your native outlets

Cycling

• Cycling is nice train and a preferred sport, however can you employ your bicycle for journeys that you just would possibly ordinarily use the automobile?
• Use an app to plan your cycle route, e.g.

Take public transport

Work from residence

• Does your job help you make money working from home at the least among the time? Reduced journey time = extra leisure time
• If it’s essential use your automobile for work, attempt to journey at occasions when the roads are much less congested, and use much less gas!

Car share with others doing comparable journeys

• Start sharing common journeys with others to save lots of transport prices and make associates
• Sign as much as a neighborhood Car Share Scheme e.g.  liftshare.com/uk

Plan your day to cut back mileage and time spent within the automobile

• If you do want to make use of a automobile to do the purchasing, attempt to go much less continuously and when roads usually are not congested
• If you’re taking your youngsters to an exercise, are you able to do the purchasing and many others close by while they’re there to save lots of having to make extra automobile journeys?
• Car emissions are biggest when your engine is chilly and that is made considerably worse the place site visitors is sluggish transferring or the engines are idling (do you know that idling your automobiles engine on the general public freeway is an offence?)

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