Car Free Day 2010!

Bike Parade – Sunday 19th September 1.30pm

Meet at the Prom end of Kings Road at 1.15 to set off at 1.30pm: first vis­it­ing the pro­posed com­munity tur­bine site, then tak­ing a child friendly back street route via Adelphi Place and Rosefield Avenue to the bot­tom of Bath Street.

Dress up your Bike work­shop — Friday 17th September 2-4pm

Ashpits, Towerbank Primary School — £2 donation

A chance for kids and adults to recycle wil­low, card­board, plastic, and other mater­i­als to turn your bike into a bike worth parading!

Car Free Day Street party — Sunday 19th September 2-4pm

Bottom of Bath Street  by the Prom (and also Straiton Place between Bath Street and Regent Street if the res­id­ents want to have a street party).

Stalls will include:

-       PEDAL Food and Energy stalls, and Transport stall with questionnaire

-       Spokes Bike Campaign stall

-       Food and Bric a brac stalls, etc.

-       Sailing and Kayaking Club

-       Lothians and Borders Police mark­ing bikes (not for free, but worth it!)

-       Tyre plant­ing – grow food in a tyre (espe­cially for those with no gardens)

Let us know!

If you want to hold a stall (e.g. to raise money for your local good cause) help stew­ard the bike parade, help set up and take down stalls, help with the work­shop on Friday, etc, then please let us know at info@pedal-porty.org.uk

Did you know?!

Worldwide, many other cit­ies and towns par­ti­cip­ate in World Car Free Day. Places like Brussels (all 161 sq km) are car free for a day. Imagine that! Imagine cit­ies and towns where people come first, and where plan­ners know that increas­ing road space for cars simply increases con­ges­tion, by mak­ing other forms of trans­port harder to use.