Idle Less for Your Health and the Planet’s Too!

As we know, unnecessary vehicle idling has health, environmental, and financial costs. Recently, New York City Mayor Mamdani and city officials recovered more than $9 million in unpaid idling fines from Amazon! (link to story) We don’t have NYC’s anti-idling law and citizen complaint hotline, but we can still do our part to turn off our cars and educate our neighbors to do the same – whether waiting for the bridge to open, outside school, or in the drive-through! Protect air quality, human health, and climate stability – 12 million gallons of fuel are wasted by unnecessary idling in the U.S. every day – half of that from passenger vehicles. 
To get cards or posters, or learn more, visit https://www.sustainableballard.org/idle-free-ballard/