Quote Originally Posted by Green Party

If you MOTORcycle sometimes, choose this day. If you don't usually MOTORcycle, or only rarely, dust off the bike seat and try it. You could arrange to meet with friends and MOTORcycle together as a group. If you know someone with a MOTORbike who does not usually MOTORcycle, encourage him/her to get the MOTORbike out too. Of course, going car free means not only choosing to walk, run or kayak that day, or take the train or bus. You could take the MOTORcycle too.

Studies elsewhere have shown that congestion and exhaust emissions can be substantially reduced if even a few people choose to leave the car at home once a week.

According to the Victoria Transport Policy Institute (Canada), "traffic congestion is a non-linear function, meaning that a small reduction in urban-peak traffic volume can cause a proportionally larger reduction in delay. For example, a 5% reduction in traffic volumes on a congested highway (for example, from 2,000 to 1,900 vehicles per hour) may cause a 10-30% increase in average vehicle speeds (for example, increasing traffic speeds from 35 to 45 miles per hour). As a result, even relatively small changes in traffic volume or capacity on congested roads can provide relatively large reductions in traffic delay." A comparable effect can be seen every time school holidays start and finish. As holidays start, the overall peak-hour congestion is noticeably eased, because there are not those extra car trips of parents taking their children to school.
Heh heh.