{"id":391692,"date":"2022-09-22T10:44:33","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T07:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=391692"},"modified":"2022-09-22T10:44:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T07:44:33","slug":"september-22nd-the-day-you-are-encouraged-to-give-up-your-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/september-22nd-the-day-you-are-encouraged-to-give-up-your-car\/","title":{"rendered":"September 22nd, the day you are encouraged to give up your car"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article_content\">\n<div id=\"fullArticle\" class=\"article_content article_description \">\n<p><strong>Every year on September 22nd, cities across the globe celebrate World Car Free Day which can also be known as &#8216;clean-air day&#8217;. The day encourages motorists to give up their cars for a day to allow people to experience streets free of motor traffic.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cars or four-wheeler vehicles are seen as the most comfortable mode of transportation but it increases not only pollution by many levels but also leads to severe car accidents.<\/p>\n<p>World Car Free Day promotes cycling, walking, usage of public transport and other forms of commuting where there are either minimalistic or no carbon-emissions. With this initiative, people also ensure that the city is pollution-free and noise-free.<\/p>\n<p>This day further witnesses very less road congestions, cleaner roads, an people replace traffic jams with fun activities on road.<\/p>\n<p>The first World Car-Free Day was marked in 2000 when the Environmental Transport Association designated it as a self-standing day that is observed on September 22. Earlier, it was decided to celebrate World Car-Free Day on the first Tuesday of Green Transport Week which occurs in the second half of June.<\/p>\n<p>Various activities that promote the use of cycles \u00a0public transportation and other means of sustainable commut options reflect the scenario of what a city with fewer carsand motor vehicles would look like.<\/p>\n<p>Photography courtesy of Basilica.ro \/ Raluca-Emanuela Ene<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year on September 22nd, cities across the globe celebrate World Car Free Day which can also be known as &#8216;clean-air day&#8217;. The day encourages motorists to give up their cars for a day to allow people to experience streets free of motor traffic. Cars or four-wheeler vehicles are seen as the most comfortable mode&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":262542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[28391,28392],"class_list":["post-391692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anniversaries-and-commemorations","tag-give-up-your-car","tag-world-car-free-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}