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The July-August issue of World Carfree Monthly news is out - read it directly here

• The Urban Repair Squad in Toronto, Canada has taken traffic calming in its own hands
• Buenos Aires, Argentina has just opened the first Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system
• In Russia, the defenders of Khimki forest (see April ACTION and May NEWS items) are planning new strategies to help save the forest from the bulldozer
• This year the Ecotopia bike tour will travel through Italy
• The tenth Towards Carfree Cities Conference will be held in Guadalajara, Mexico, from 5 to 9
• September
• Tirana, Albania has been having inspiring successes with a limited bike share system

REPRESENTATIVES FROM over a dozen civic organisations have urged Dublin city councillors to maintain the 30km/h speed limit in the city centre.

Signatories of the open letter come from a wide range of bodies including the Children’s Rights Alliance, National Council for the Blind of Ireland, An Taisce, Dublin Cycling Campaign, pedestrian advocacy group Cosain, Friends of the Irish Environment as well as Dr Declan Bedford specialist in public health medicine and broadcaster Duncan Stewart.