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  • World Car-Free Day: Not a Day to Celebrate

    09/22/2005 10:32:34 AM PDT · by logician2u · 34 replies · 612+ views
    Competitive Enterprise Institute ^ | September 22, 2005 | Jody Clarke
    If You Think Life Without Cars Is Easy, Remember the Big Easy News Release by Jody Clarke September 22, 2005 Washington, DC, September 22, 2005 -- Organizers of today's 'World Car-Free Day' are promoting supposedly more sustainable transportation systems. But according to the Competitive Enterprise Institute, lack of access to cars can be deadly -- as demonstrated by the experience of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, where cars, rather than mass transit, were the key to evacuating hundreds of thousands of people. "It was a lack of access to cars that led tens of thousands of people to remain in...