Next Friday September 28 is celebrated in Chile the "World Day without my car", an initiative that has been doing for a while but every year achieves greater notoriety. The idea is that all citizens of the car we go down that day and use other means of transport to move around, such as public transport, cycling, why not our own feet. The World Day without a car is also celebrated in many European cities on September 22 so fixed, I imagine that the date change here was to fall on a Friday. In Chile one of its most notorious is the closure for the cars of the Alameda (the previous version was from Plaza Italia and Teatinos) and shall be available 2 tracks for cyclists and generating a huge traffic congestion around (another incentive not riding in a car that day.)
In previous versions some controversy was generated, critics say that does not correspond to discourage car use when you have a good transport system public. That was before the implementation of Transantiago ... imagine now.
Despite the criticism (which some reason they have), it is possible to participate in anyway without getting on a bus or the subway, using non-motorized transportation. Finally not to make the journey to work or study site (which can be quite long for some) but to travel to other activities, which are nearby and perfectly "achievable" in the means of transport .... better than nothing.
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