Participating towns and cities

BelgiumSilly, Belgium

Silly already registered 2x for EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK in: 2016 2008

Participation 2008

Activities within the week Activities within the week

Silly organises activities during EUROPEANMOBILITYWEEK 2008, taking into account the annual theme.

All week
- Tuesday 16th sept:
Round table conference (local mobility experts) discussing the theme "les défit de la mobilité dans une commune rurale" (Mobility challenges in a rural comunity". followed by press conference.

- Sunday 21st sept
"Village without cars": village place is shut off for the whole day with many different activities (walks, 2nd hand bike fair, police educational circuit for trafic education, f&B, music etc,)

Car-free day Car-free day

Silly carries out a Car-Free Day 2008 and closes off one or more streets to traffic, and opens it to pedestrians, cyclists and public transport.

Zone opened to residents on Car-Free Day:
Village center, trafic will need to bypass the village center through small streets.
Normally a "provincial road" crosses the village. This will be closed in cooperation with the "MET" (minister of transport and equipment, responsible for the large roads)