Leave your car at home and walk, bike or take the public transport on September 22, which will be the 'Car free day'. The day was celebrated in Romania in the last two years and has been mostly promoted by biking associations, which started to gain more ground across Romania. In previous years, several lanes downtown various cities were dedicated to bikers during this day, but car traffic wasn't stopped downtown, like in most of the European cities joining the celebration.

The car free day ends the European mobility week, which takes place between September 16 and September 22. 43 cities in Romania are part of the celebrations organized for the European Mobility Week.

Bucharest was signed up with two activities for this event: Bike competition with children from School no. 1 Chitila from Ilfov County and Pavement Drawing with theme "Travel Smarter, Live Better.

In Cluj – Napoca a bikers' riders' and rollers' park will be re-opened. A bikesharing program for the 100.000 students of Cluj-Napoca will be opened, a project in partnership with an NGO called Green Revolution. Timisoara will open new biking routes and inaugurate bike parking centers. The city hall will close down one of the main streets in Timisoara on September 22, reserving it for pedestrians, bikers and sports competitions.

This year's theme for the European Mobility Week is 'Travel Smarter, Live Better'. Every September 22, people from around the world get together in the streets, intersections, and neighbourhood blocks to remind the world that we don't have to accept our car-dominated society.

World Carfree Day was established in 2000 as a grassroots movement by the World Carfree Network to coincide with the European Mobility Week. It has grown to involve official and unofficial participants in over 1,000 cities in 40 countries.

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