Clean Air Day is a celebration of environmentally-friendly activities that promote clean air and good health across Canada. It is a great opportunity to make environmentally-friendly lifestyle choices, for you, your family and your community. This year Clean Air Day is on Wednesday June 3rd.
The Transit will be free. Tell the driver it's Clean Air Day. There
will be complimentary breakfast from 7:00 to 8:30 AM at Queensway,
Orchard Park and Westbank Transit exchanges.
Choices made by businesses, communities and individuals can lead to meaningful reductions in air pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions.
Tips to reduce your greenhouse gas emissions:
- Leave the car at home. Walk or bike for short trips;
- For longer trips, take the bus; one busload of passengers takes 40 vehicles off the road, saving 70,000 litres of fuel, 175 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions and nine tonnes of pollutants per year.
- Don't idle your vehicles; Ten seconds of idling uses more fuel that restarting your engine and produces more air pollution
- Keep to the speed limit. Driving at 100 km/h burns 10 per cent more fuel than driving at 90 km/h.
- On the highway, use cruise control to maintain a steady speed and reduce fuel consumption.
- In the city, stop-and-go traffic means that your air conditioning can increase fuel consumption by as much as 20 per cent. At low city speeds, open windows can be a fuel-saving alternative.
