Car Free Day
Hello! It is World Car-Free Day! The event encourages to give up driving for one day. It is organised in some cities in the world. It’s also celebrated in my country but I noticed it is not perceived positively by people.
What is wrong? Well it was invented to bring people’s attention to reducing the use of fuels and the needless overuse of cars. I find it really stupid using a car for one person if we have an opportunity to pick up a few passengers. Going through the same way in five various cars is a lot worse than driving a one car. I know it is easier, but think how much traffic and pollution we could lessen! But there will always be people who would say “airplanes waste a lot of more fuel everyday”, exactly but we are talking about cars now. But you do not have to fly anywhere either, it is not a must. Baby steps are important! We do not have too much time!
Of course I encourage you to walk or ride a bike for a short distances if you can and choose trains or public transports if you have to pass the longer distance. There is one more thing I wanted to mention. This month I decided to make my driving licence. My main reasons were that:
the only one member of my family has driving licence and it is my father and he’s old and not very healthy (so if something bad happened I could use a car)
I live in small village without public transport connection
my school is far from my house
it is good to have the licence even if you do not drive a lot
The last reason is what I wanted to expand. Having a licence does not force you to drive everyday. I think I will drive a car as less as possible. I really enjoy and appreciate using public transport! Even now when I am just a passenger if I have to, I choose to give me a lift to the nearest bus stop instead of delivering me all the way, because it is useless. I also stay in my dormitory for two weeks so I reduce one weekend returning distance.
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