During the week of 16-22 September, İzmir City Council, operating with the support of İzmir Metropolitan Municipality will organize several actions fully in accordance with this year's theme. Most of the actions will take place in public areas and streets of the city aiming to get the participation of many city residents as possible.
Actions, planned within the framework of European Mobility Week organization are given below:
*** 2015/09/16, Wednesday All Day
On September 16th, Car Free Day will be organized,(the activity is planned on 16th, due to the Religious Holiday for one week
- Several exhibitions,
- Workshops (yoga, cartoon, origami, painting, ceramic, mask, puppet, )
- Concerts,
- Theatre groups performing on streets,
- Dance (on streets)
- Several races and sports activities (on streets)
- Tree and flowers seeding
- Decorating, tree and flower planting for the streets
- Painting and reshaping streets
*** 2015/09/16 -22, During Europen Mobility Week
During 16-22 September, cartoon exhibition on "Car Free Day"
*** 2015/09/17, Thursday, 18.30
A panel on "Sustainable Transportation" will be held on 17th September Thursday
*** 2015/09/20, Sunday, 17.00
Fancy Women Cycling Tour, Izmir
Sema Gür , (44 years old, teacher) has organized the ‘’fancy women cycling tour’’ for the first time in 2013 on World Car Free Day. Sema wanted to show everyone that women can ride a bicycle and can do it even with frilly skirts,fancy dresses and with high- heeled shoes.
Sema created an event on Facebook and invited her friends to join her to cycle in the city on World Car Free Day. Almost 250 ‘’fancy’’ women participated the city tour with their flower-decorated bicycles.
She has created a facebook event and invited her friends. There were more than 500 women all dressed up for this very special event. In 2014 there were almost 1000 women who met in Konak Square and cycled in the city center. This year, 2015, on September 20th, more than 6000 women registered for the bike ride and this tour will take place in 6 different cities contemporary.
For the 3 year in a row "Instead of black clouds of exhaust women will fill the cities with Flagrancy"
The cycling route for the event is easy and short
(approx 5 km). 5 participation conditions are:
1- You have to be a woman
2- You have to be fancy
3- You should come with a fancy bicycle
4- Able to cycle max. 10km/h
5- be able to wave your hand while cycling
This event will be organized every year world car free day for awareness purposes.
If women use bicycles, everyone would do the same, because this is a proof that the city is safe for cycling.
Fancy Women Cycling Tour
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*** Brochures and promotion materials will be presented to the residents that use public transportation during the week,