Town centre events

Streets Alive organises and promotes culturally based traffic-free events in town and city centres.

Our approach is to attract a wide range of the public with enjoyable and relevant activities and then engage them in local and wider issues such as car-free travel options. The events create positive feelings about the town in the context of the street, rather than being a commercial event or a carnival for the sake of it.

Our model has worked successfully in Bristol in annual events since 2001, with an average of 6000 people attending. 7 streets in Bristol's old city centre are closed to traffic for a day, in partnership with Bristol City Council.

The events have been in 7 streets in Bristol's old city centre which are closed to traffic for a day, in partnership with Bristol City Council.

The events have created a vibrant culture for that part of town and has resulted in it being used regularly for other events with traffic excluded. The events have been one of the largest In Town Without My Car Day events in the UK.

See our PHOTO GALLERY of how the streets are transformed with arts, dance, performance, children's activities and for travel promotions.
Also see more photos from the 2007, 2008 and 2009 Car Free Days in Bristol.

Streets Alive offers services to councils and communities to develop events to meet long term aims.

In 2007 we advised 15 London boroughs on developing ideas for travel promotions during car free days, on behalf of Transport for London.

Join-in Travel Bunting

Travel Footsteps

Scrap Car Travel Board

Our NightSafe event held with the police on a Saturday night showed how much safer the street was without traffic. This resulted in the area being made traffic-free every weekend night.