So... you are thinking about organizing a City-wide Car Free Day?

Great idea! But be warned: if your goal is to create a viable CFD program at the scale of an entire town or city, it is perhaps not nearly as simple as it may appear at first glance. It is not that it is all that extraordinarily difficult to organize and do something along these lines which you might then label a "car-free day". Indeed many have done so, all too often without a great deal of effort. But what a wasted opportunity it is when people try to back into it!

Working through this site and its many extensions on the Web, we would like to put before you some of the reasons why we feel it is worthwhile for you to take the time and effort to take full advantage of any such opportunity. Getting it right is indeed a challenging task. It requires energy, preparation and many skills, not least of which a willingness to listen to and negotiate with many divergent and sometimes rather difficult groups and interests. But take courage! Others have managed to do a good job of this in the past, and surely you can too. With their and others' help, and your own incandescent energy and dedication to your community, your neighbors and all those who will follow you, this is going to work out quite nicely indeed.

We would suggest that a good place to start in your analysis of what it is you might want to do and how to do it will be the Hands-on Experience section here. And as you review this, you may want to give particular attention to the results of past city-wide CFD projects that are reported there.