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StreetTalk! Car-free Sundays In Bogota Colombia
Written by Boston Biker on Dec 03StreetTalk!
Car-free Sundays in Bogota Colombia – How about more car-free parkways here in Boston?
Wednesday Dec. 10, 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Program includes 3 short StreetFilms on Bogotá, premere showing of LivableStreets Street Film on Mem Drive Sundays, and Special guest Renata von Tscharner from Charles River Conservancy. @ LivableStreets office space, 100 Sidney Street, Central Square, Cambridge [ map… ]
free and open to the public, donation suggested beer/sodas provided compliments of Harpoon Brewery!
Would you like to see car free days in Boston? Did you know that a section of Memorial Drive is car free every Sunday between April and November? Do you wonder what it would take to have a car free Storrow Drive? Did you know that over 70 miles of streets are car free every Sunday in Bogotá, Colombia thanks to their former Mayor, Enrique Peñalosa? And did you know that LivableStreets will be hosting Peñalosa in Boston in February?
Come watch StreetFilms about Bogotá, Colombia to see their street transformations and learn more about what Enrique Peñalosa did to start car free streets. Hear about advocacy efforts to get car free parkways. Learn about the history of the Memorial Drive car free days, and watch LivableStreets new film about it!
This event is sponsored by LivableStreets Alliance.
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