Anti-car organizations Anti-car organizations The Alternative Transportation Movement is a type of environmental movement that challenges the widespread use of private automobiles and single occupant vehicles or SOVs, mostly in North America, where urban sprawl and automobile use are very widespread. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alternative Transportation Movement"
The Car-free movement is composed of people who believe that it is important to reduce both the number of cars in the world, and the usage of them. It comprises: ...more on Wikipedia about "Car-free movement"
The goal of the Carfree Cities movement series is to bring together people from around the world who are promoting practical alternatives to car dependence - walking, cycling and public transport, and ultimately the transformation of cities, towns and villages into human-scaled environments rich in public space and community life. ...more on Wikipedia about "Carfree Cities"
Critical Mass is an event held typically on the last Friday of every month in cities around the world, where bicyclists, skateboarders, roller bladers, roller skaters and other self-propelled people take to the streets en masse. Critical Mass has no leaders, and no goals other than to meet once every month and enjoy the security and companionship of riding, rolling and travelling through the city together. The one worldwide slogan, chanted by riders in probably all cities where the ride take place is: "We aren't blocking traffic; we are traffic." Critics have claimed that this is a deliberate attempt to obstruct traffic and cause a disruption of normal city functions, asserting that Critical Mass refuses to obey the vehicular traffic laws that apply to cyclists the same as they do to drivers of other vehicles. Some Critical Mass fans defend the lawlessness of cyclists based on their belief that typical laws governing bicycle road users are unfair and different from those governing pedestrians and motorists, and that traffic law heavily favours motor vehicle use in many cities. However, cyclists are typically treated by the law similarly to drivers of other low-power and/or slow-moving vehicles, though many cyclists and motorists, and sometimes even those in law-enforcement, are often unaware of cyclist roadway rights. ...more on Wikipedia about "Critical Mass"
Reclaim the Streets (RTS) is a group of people with a collective ideal of community ownership of public spaces. It has been characterised as a resistance movement to the corporate forces of globalisation, and, more significantly, as a form of opposition to the car as the dominant mode of transport. ...more on Wikipedia about "Reclaim the Streets"
In its conventional sense, a street party is just what it says: a party taking place on a road. In Britain, these are usually held to comemmorate momentous events, such as VE Day or the Silver Jubilee. These are usually jovial, jelly-and-icecream community affairs. ...more on Wikipedia about "Street party"
Transport 2000, founded in 1972, is a British-based environmental and sustainable transport pressure group. According to its mission statement, "Transport 2000 is an independent national body concerned with sustainable transport. The group suggests solutions to transport problems and aims to reduce the environmental and social impact of transport by promoting greater use of public transport, walking and cycling whilst vigorously attacking car usage of any kind. Transport 2000 espouses a vision of a country where traffic no longer dominates people's lives, where many journeys can be made on foot, by cycle or using public transport. ...more on Wikipedia about "Transport 2000" http://www.shortopedia.com - forget the rest.
World Naked Bike Ride (WNBR) is an international event in which participants plan, meet and ride together en masse on human-powered transport (the vast majority on bicycles, and fewer on skateboards, roller blades, roller skates) to "protest oil dependency and celebrate the power and individuality of our bodies". ...more on Wikipedia about "World Naked Bike Ride"
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