Brendt Barbur is the founder and the director of the Bike Film Festival (BFF), a celebration of the bicycle through music, art, and film, which is held in 39 cities worldwide every year. Nine years after the first festival in New York, he remains as enthusiastic and continues to promote the use of the bicycle [...]
Boris Johnson, the mayor of London is trying to improve the sharing of public space in a rather peculiar way. Indeed, he noticed the disadvantages of driving a car in London due to congestion. Will he therefore promote biking or public transportation to fight against this problem? No, this is nonsense and he seems to [...]
Fazilka is a small, 162 year old town on the India-Pakistan border. Its unkempt, garbage-strewn congested streets with small, bustling shops are nothing out of the ordinary. But this town of about 68,000 people – and about 45,000 vehicles on its narrow lanes – has removed one source of congestion: cars.
On November 21, 2008, the [...]
Don’t miss the latest issue of Carfree Times, available at J.H. Crawford’s web carfree.com!
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Have a look at this strange construction. Is it a new fashionable toy for the urban citizen, lacking nature, a new method of generating green energy or a demonstration to protest against experiments on animals in cosmetic factories?
Not at all, this is a creation designed in 2006 by a group of students from Dalhousie School [...]
I sold my car on Friday, November 28, 2008 to the first person who came to see it. That was as far ahead as I planned for my new status of “carlessness”. Irresponsible? Perhaps. But not knowing what was going to happen, wondering how one lives without a car, it was all close to thrilling for me! And [...]
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