The climate charity Possible has launched its Car Free Cities campaign in four cities: Bristol, Birmingham, Leeds and London.
Car Free Bristol Campaigner Rob Bryher aims to support existing groups and organisations to tackle car-dependency and dominance in Bristol, as well as building new campaigns that will focus on five key areas in the first year of the project:
1. Parklets - finding ways to take back road space from cars to create green spaces and seating for community life to flourish
2. Traffic surveying - talking to residents where traffic filters have already been introduced to see if they want to see through-traffic return to their streets
3. Traffic counting - engaging residents with a citizen science project to monitor traffic levels in their streets (using Telraam technology)
4. Clean Air Zones - campaigning for cleaner air and for better measures to tackle air pollution and the negative effects of car use
5. Future filling stations - thinking creatively about how soon-to-be obsolete petrol stations can be used in the future through registering them as assets of community value
Please feel free to contact Rob Bryher to connect with the campaign in Bristol: rob.bryher@wearepossible.org