Today is World Car Free Day - yet traffic levels are back to pre-Covid levels and CSO figures show public transport use is down. What would it take for us to go car-free more often? worldcarfreeday
September 22nd is World Car Free Day and it has been designed for all of us to consider our car use.
Here in Ireland, it is not much more than a symbolic date, with no enforcement of any car-free measures . Public transport journeys in the week beginning 22 August 2022 were 87% of the number taken in the week beginning 02 March 2020 . The number of bus journeys in Dublin for the week beginning 22 August 2022 was 84% of the level in the week beginning 02 March 2020, compared with 95% for bus journeys outside Dublin and 88% for rail journeys.
In August 2022, car traffic volumes in Dublin nearly returned to pre-COVID-19 pandemic counts. For the week beginning 22 August 2022 , car traffic volumes were only 3% lower than in the same week in 2019.
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