The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has announced plans for London\u2019s biggest ever Car Free Day on Sunday 22 September 2019.<\/p>\n
More than 20km of streets will be closed to cars in Central London \u2013 the equivalent of nearly 200 football pitches in length \u2013 including Tower Bridge (closed to all traffic), London Bridge (buses only) and much of the City of London. Eighteen boroughs are also organising events including working with residents to create local \u2018Play Streets\u2019 – safe spaces where children can play and communities get together.<\/p>\n
\u201cLondon is leading the way in innovative measures to improve air pollution and I want this year\u2019s Car Free Day events to be the best of any world city,\u201d said Sadiq Khan. \u201cThis will be a great opportunity for us all to leave our cars behind and explore our streets by foot, or by bike. We\u2019ve called our range of events \u2018Reimagine\u2019 so that Londoners get an idea of what some of the busiest parts of our city would be like without cars and traffic.\u201d<\/p>\n
Car Free Day is marked across the world and the Mayor hopes over 150,000 Londoners will join in London\u2019s Reimagine events, which will help encourage the change in behavior needed to meet the Mayor\u2019s target of 80 percent of all journeys to be taken via sustainable modes of transport by 2041, compared to 63 percent today.<\/p>\n
At least 18 boroughs have confirmed they will be participating in Car Free Day. Boroughs including Ealing, Brent, Greenwich, and Tower Hamlets are organising their own events, while others have pledged to support residents who would like to hold a Play Street on the day.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are delighted that the Mayor has put his support behind Car Free Day and is encouraging and empowering ordinary Londoners to bring their own streets alive with play,\u201d said Fiona Sutherland, Deputy Director of London Play. \u201cCar Free Day play streets will give people the opportunity to witness a transformation on their doorstep, when cars no longer dominate what we often forget is valuable public space. For a few hours, children, whose lives are most negatively affected by traffic, will take priority. We hope that it will be the beginning of long-term change.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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