00:00Up to 60,000 vehicles were kept off the roads in Dubai and three other emirates on Sunday.
00:10The reason?
00:12It's car-free day.
00:13Dubai kick-started its ninth car-free day with top officials leading the drive by ditching
00:18cars to work this morning.
00:20Dr. Thani Ahmed Al-Zaidouni, the Minister of Climate Change and Environment, joined
00:26Hussain Nasir Luta, Director-General in Dubai Municipality, and heads of various government
00:32departments were present to lead the initiative.
00:35The senior officials boarded the metro from the Ittisalat station to reach the Union station.
00:40A grand celebration was held at the Union Metro Park.
00:44Wearing a prosthetic left arm, Mohammad Yusuf Javid, who walked all the way from Sharjah
00:49to Dubai, became a crowd-puller at the Dubai Municipality's car-free day celebrations.
00:55I walked from Sharjah, Al-Qa'an, to Dubai, to this venue.
01:00When I reached the clock tower, the Dubai Economic Department staff all joined me.
01:08They said, greeted me.
01:10They said, come along with us.
01:12You are a very, something great you have done.
01:14See, at least one day in a month, please stay away from the car.
01:20Even if you are going to work, go by walking.
01:24It is good for your health, as well as you're saving petrol, you're saving carbon, pollution-free.
01:36It leads to your good health.
01:38The campaign has gone beyond Dubai this year, with municipalities in Al Ain, Hajman, and
01:43Ras Al Khaimah also taking part for the first time.
01:46We are celebrating for the ninth year, the car-free day.
01:51This is very important for us at Dubai Municipality, to be joined by the people from different sectors.
01:58The idea is to convey a message that means it's very important to reduce the number of
02:04cars on the street, to prevent any problem to the environment from the carbon.
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