One of the sayings we use most often at World Streets is one that goes “you can never tell where the next good idea is going to come from”. Here is an example.
As some of our readers certainly know, we have something of an affinity with the concept of Car Free Days — which we nonetheless attempts to qualify with ample doses of realism and critical thinking (often lacking). So it happens that we end up being something of a worldwide turnstile for news and views about how this concept of taking a few cars off the streets of the city and thinking about it for a day is treated in different places. Sometimes this can bring surprises. As one example, a few weeks back we fell into conversation (Skype) with one of our long distance transportation planner colleagues who had in recent years moved to Israel, and we ended up hearing about a kind of Car Free Day of the sort we have never thought about. We asked him to tell us about it, to see if there are any broader lessons to be learned from this experience.
