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Kris's journey starts in the Buckinghamshire town of Marlow, where car ownership is one of the highest in the country. The aim is simple—for just one day, Kris will persuade the people of Marlow to leave their cars at home and go car-free. Kris's aim is to get one in five cars to stay at home.
Kris hopes that after four weeks, the town of Marlow will be prepared to go car-free. Her starting point is Marlow's traffic expert Tony Blackmore, who can uniquely visualize the town's congestion with a state-of-the-art computer program. Tony also shows Kris what is potentially the key to a solution when he demonstrates what rush hour traffic looks like during the school holidays.
Now Kris has to sell her campaign to the people who drive the cars. After tackling some parents at the school gates, she invites the rest to a meeting. Out of the 150 parents, only 12 turn up, including one mom, who drives 12 minutes to take her children to school, and despite the fact that they recognize traffic is a nightmare, they don't take responsibility. That is until Kris shocks them with some hard-to-ignore stats about children's obesity levels and environmentally-related asthma.
As Kris attempts to step the campaign up a notch, she brings together a handful of volunteers, but as always, finances are a problem. If anyone can make this happen, it's Councillor Alex Collingwood. But it's not as straightforward as Kris hoped.
With the council coming good with money for posters and publicity, the campaign group starts spreading the word about No Car Day. Kris, however, still has to tackle the school moms and she effectively employs kiddie pester power as the primary school students demonstrate a near 100 percent enthusiasm for the scheme.
But will it be enough? On No Car Day, will Kris succeed by cutting 20 percent of the traffic, or will the high street be a congestion nightmare?
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