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Today is Car Free Day. Do you know where your Pun Pun Bicycle-rental station is?
CITIES AROUND the world are observing Car Free Day today by giving motorists dirty looks, but the main activities are a lot of fun as well as healthy and - with one particular Bangkok notion - can save you some money.
Amid the slew of events going on around the city, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration is selling Bangkok Car Free Day pins for Bt50 that serve as one-day passes for the Skytrain, the subway, all the buses and the boats on the river. Take advantage of them from 6am to 9pm and your Bt50 goes to the Chaipattana Foundation.
The day's highlight will nevertheless involve the innovative Pun Pun Bike Share launched in May to cut down on carbon-dioxide emissions from vehicles and maybe put a dent in the traffic jams. It has 500 bikes for rent at various places downtown, a boon for office workers and university students.
"Many countries have been successful in getting people to walk instead of driving a car on Car Free Day," says BMA spokesperson Threedow Aphaiwongs. "Jakarta got good feedback from closing a street to vehicles.