Welcome
Welcome to Idle-Free NYC.
The staff of Asthma Free School Zone welcomes you to our campaign for a cleaner, healthier New York. Over the next several weeks our team will be meeting with all of our partners* to discuss each group’s role in eliminating idling fumes that can worsen and even cause asthma.
We encourage all participants to check www.idle-free.info regularly and post comments: ideas, stories, questions and events you want to share. We hope to create a constructive, creative dialogue among New Yorkers who breathe the same polluted air and have the conviction to do something about it.
Thanks for visiting; we hope to hear from you soon!
The staff of AFSZ
*The Office of the Mayor/Long-term Planning and Sustainability, NYC DOT and DOHMH/Asthma Initiative, the NYC Council, Environmental Defense Fund, the New York Mets and many other concerned community groups.
This is a great campaign and Asthma Free School Zone (AFSZ) is doing great work!
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So on idle free day,5/6, there was alot of traffic, stop and go, coming into NY from NJ at approx 6.10am. I work in NY and make this trip daily. I'm thinking what a shame, all this exhaust and wasted gas. Upon exiting the tunnel I see that the cause of the tieup, was a NYPD cruiser writing a ticket and blocking 1.5 lanes on the Canal Street East exit by Tribeca theatre. Isn't this rediculous! Couldn't they have pulled the car off to a side street? It seems to me a little common sense is in order here.
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