Dubai kickstarted its 9th Car Free Day with top officials leading the drive by ditching cars to work this morning. Daily headlines from the UAE and around the world brought to you by Gulf News. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv
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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.