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This year the Department of Public Transport, Roads and Works will utilise the power of music to encourage Gauteng residents to make a modal shift to public transport. Car Free Day is an international event aimed at creating public awareness on how private car users can contribute to the reduction in air pollution and traffic congestion.
The Homburg-Harris Centre is situated in Calgary's Downtown Central Core, with very convenient links to urban public transport. The building complex consists of two linked office towers. The office space of 20,000 m(2) in the ten-storey Tower 1 is fully pre-leased to the energy company Penn West Petroleum Ltd. with completion scheduled for January 2008. The ground floor retail areas will be used as a restaurant. The 20-storey Tower 2 is scheduled to be complete in 2009. The Homburg-Harris Centre ... features underground parking for 400 cars.
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When compared to to the private car ... public transport is a very safe form of transport in terms of deaths per passenger km [citation needed]. By way of contrast, car accidents as estimated to cause some 1 million fatalities per year world wide. In the United States alone there were 42,643 automobile accident fatalities in 2003, almost three times the total number of murders (14,408).
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