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Successful Past Events and EMW
Activities in the UK

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Campaign Origins
• First ever CFD was in Bath, UK, in June
1995
• It is a vicious rumour that the French
started it in La Rochelle in 1997… This
claim must be contested at every
available opportunity!

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EMW-ITWMC
Charter Criteria
• 16-22 September, every year
• Annual theme, 2015: Choose. Change. Combine.
• Organise a week of activities to promote sustainable
transport
• Implement at least one permanent measure which
contributes to modal transfer from private car to
environmentally sound means of transport…
• …ideally involving roadspace reallocation
• Organise the In Town Without My Car! day, i.e. car
free street, preferably on 22nd
September

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In Town Without My
Car! (Car Free Day)
• Close one or more urban streets to motors for at least
one day, eg 7am – 7pm
• Preferably on 22nd
September (Tuesday this year)
• These streets are the domain of pedestrians, cyclists
and public transport
• Find a better use for the street, e.g. test a homezone,
bike trials, street theatre, music, dancing, public art,
children’s play areas…

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What are our town
centres streets for?
Maximising
throughput of
motor traffic?

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Not for People!
(1978 Government road safety poster!)

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Motors only!

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Not for kids!

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Or something else?
ITWMC, Bristol, 2002

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Islington

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Greenwich

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Hackney/Tower-Hamlets

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Waltham Forest

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Permanent measure
example
Roadspace
reallocation
permanent
scheme: road
turned into
cycle track at
Farringdon
Station (LB
Islington)

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Bristol
7 streets closed to motors in
Corn Street area of city centre

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Islington Inspired by
San Francisco

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Park(ing) Day in
Manchester

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Tower Bridge
CFD 2001

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Ken launches new
London bike map

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The King sang to Ken at
The Cut
“The Wonder
of You!”

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Kingston

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Edinburgh
commuter challenge
Bikesalw
aysw
in!

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Polar bear joins commuter
challenge in Swindon

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Stoke-on-Trent
Permanent scheme: new car sharing scheme at
University Hospital launched, aka…
how many
nurses can
you fit in a
Mini?

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St Johns Road,
Wembley
• residential street
used as rat-run
• ITWMC 2005 used
to pilot a one-day
experimental road
closure

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Egham, Surrey
A commuter challenge
event almost guarantees
good local press coverage
BIKES
ALWAYS WIN!

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Flint
Permanent scheme: new bus-only
link, controlled by rising bollards,
in the Deeside Industrial Estate
Church Street closed to motor
traffic for Car Free Day

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Hammersmith

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Bring in the kids!
LB Merton
Eastbourne

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LB Merton
Winning entry in sustainable
travel photo competition
Merton Commuter
Challengers (the bikes won)

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Milton
Keynes

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Newcastle-Upon-
Tyne

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Newport car-
crushing!
Newport council worker
Geraint Roberts crushed
his old Volvo, in
exchange for free rail
travel for his 22-mile
commute from Pontyclun

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A popular campaign
67%
23%
3%
1% 6%
very good idea
quite good idea
not a very good idea
very bad idea
don’t know / no opinion
(962 people polled 22nd
Sept 2004 in ten
participating UK towns)

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Most people share the
campaign concerns
To reduce traffic and
pollution,
do you agree that car
use should be limited
in your town?
50%
36%
6%
3%
5%
Strongly agree
Somew hat agree
Somew hat disagree
Strongly disagree
Don’t know / no opinion

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People perceive lots of
campaign benefits
What in your opinion are the main benefits of this event?
0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800
There is less pollution
It is easier to w alk around
The street is quieter because there's no motor traffic
The street is a friendlier place
Raises aw areness of transport problems
People are less stressed
I feel safer
It is easier to cycle
I can try another means of transport
Increased revenue for shops and restaurants
There are no benefits to me
Other benefits (please specify in comments the end)
Don’t know
There are no benefits to other people

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Islington
END OF
PART 1

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Design out obesity!
 Countries with highest levels of active travel generally
have the lowest obesity rates
 Time spent in cars is positively associated with obesity
 Physical inactivity is killing more people than smoking
 The Times last week: “Britain has one of the worst
obesity rates in the world…our lifestyles are more
sedentary than ever before”
 “If a medication existed that had a similar effect as
physical activity, it would be regarded as a wonder drug
or miracle cure” Sir Liam Donaldson, Former Chief
Medical Officer, 2009

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Air Quality
• Air pollution in London's Oxford Street breached the
legal limit for the whole of 2015 – by January 4th
!
• 24,000 premature deaths every year in UK
• “We need a long term strategy of reducing pollution
in our great city – let's start with pedestrianising
Oxford St and other roads in Central London” tweet
by Christian Wolmar 10/4/15, hopeful Labour
candidate for London Mayor
• EMW = great opportunity

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Camden

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Greenwich

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Corby, Northants

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Barnstaple

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Preston

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Swindon

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Swansea

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Inverness

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Stoke-on-Trent

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Bristol: permanent
schemes
Three new Home Zones in Southville
Rising bollards in city centre

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GPG examples:
Camden
Museum Street,
Camden, 22/9/03…
inspired the
permanent measures
clause in the charter:
"implement one or more new practical measure(s) that are made
permanent in the local authority and which contribute(s) to modal
transfer from private car to environmentally sound means of
transport and to sustainable urban mobility in general."

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Camden 2004
Coptic Street,
parallel to
Museum
Street, and
now also
permanently
car-free

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Streets for People
• Local authorities invite bids from residents
(individuals, groups, associations) to put forward
the case for their street to be the focus for the
ITWMC, and perhaps the whole week
• A chance for local people to develop and pilot
their own ideas in their own streets, (eg a lower
speed limit, a homezone, a road closure…)

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SFP features
• Residents take ownership of the event
• Locals are empowered: they can make a
difference
• Foster responsibility and pride
• Local Authority support and traffic orders etc.
given to best workable proposal(s) which have
strong grassroots support and leadership.

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SFP would be
popular
• A 2006 national survey of 1,977 people
showed three quarters of people in favour of
traffic calming
MORI / County Surveyors' Society, April 2006
• 81% of 10,000 respondents in a phone poll
voted in favour of a London-wide 20mph
speed limit
London Tonight, Carlton TV, 25 January 1999

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SFP benefits
• Opportunity for towns where the centre may already be
pedestrianised…
• …or where a town centre event might be too costly and time-
consuming to organise
• For residential suburbs…everyone wants “something done”
about the traffic in their street
• Local authority delivers what people want - not imposed from
“on high”
• Organisation shared at grass roots level
• Cheap and quick to sort (compared to major city centre event)
• More than one good bid… more than one event?

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SFP sub-themes
• Stronger links with healthy lifestyles: research in
Scotland has shown that health is the biggest single
motivator to cut car use… publicise benefits of daily
exercise, health risks of sedentary lifestyles, higher
pollution levels in cars…
• Focus on car-free lifestyles: highlight examples of
people and organisations which thrive without
personal motor transport.
• Celebrate people who achieve life goals – access to
jobs, schools, shopping, holidays, entertainment,
romance – without always jumping in a car to get
them!

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SFP example from
Brent (NW London)
“We closed five streets for traditional street parties…
residents organised all sorts of activities:
environmental fairs, cycling competitions, markets,
concerts, sports etc.
“There were great photos and loads of positive press,
and they have led to a proposal to create a permanent
Home Zone.
“It was really nice to do this for the community and see
everyone out enjoying the street and meeting their
neighbours…

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Brent shows the
way!
“Old fashioned street parties
are a great way to show
residents how enjoyable
their streets can be, using
them as social space and
making the street scene
more attractive for
residents and safer for
children to play”
Transport Planner and Event Organiser
Kathryn King

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Case Study:
Hammersmith & Fulham
EMW boxes ticked…
Estcourt Road Fulham closed to motors
New 20mph speed limit unveiled by Mayor
Child designed sign
Pavement build-outs
St Thomas Primary School organised their
own street party and managed the budget

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Press: the good…

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…the bad...

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…the ugly

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Our new Bible?

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The vision thing
In Town
With My
Car!