Saturday, October 11, 2014

Do you know about this amazing South Korean city of Suwon which goes car free for thirty days?

It's just little more than a year since the city of Suwon in South Korea practised an amazing experiment. In the Haenggung-dong neighborhood, 1500 cars were removed from the streets as their 4,343 owners volunteered not to use them for one whole month.



The Eco-mobility World Festival , as it was called, was an eminent success. Most residents on the world's first month-long car-free diet became convinced that living without a car was healthier , more sustainable, environmentally friendly and fun way to live and resolved to claim back the streets that had been designed to accommodate more cars and bring them back to the people.