World Card Free Day

World Car Free Day is often connected to free public transport day - for one day we are allowed not to buy ticekts.

In Poland we commonly call ticket-collectors the Canaries (like a bird :)). There is no solid explenation where did it come frome, but it is this way.

So this is a theme for our illustration for 22 september - A canary ticket-collector sitting on closed ticket validator.

A Car-Free Day encourages motorists to give up their cars for a day. Organized events are held in some cities and countries. September 22 is World Car Free Day.[1] According to The Washington Post, the event "promotes improvement of mass transit, cycling and walking, and the development of communities where jobs are closer to home and where shopping is within walking distance".[1]
The events, which vary by location, give motorists and commuterists an idea of their locality with fewer cars. While projects along these lines had taken place from time to time on an ad hoc basis starting with the 1973 oil crisis, it was only in October 1994 that a structured call for such projects was issued in a keynote speech by Eric Britton at the International Ciudades Accesibles (Accessible Cities) Conference held in Toledo (Spain).