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City streets come alive on Car Free Day in Vancouver

by Charlie Smith on June 21st, 2015 at 5:01 PM
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      It was actually car-free weekend in parts of Kitsilano.

      But it still goes by the name Car Free Day Vancouver. And on Father's Day (June 21), it breathed a whole lot of life into Commercial Drive, Main Street, and Denman Street.

      I dropped by the party on Commercial Drive where motor-vehicles were banned from Venables Street to Grandview.

      People were dancing in the middle of the road, as well as selling merchandise, roller-blading, eating lunch at tables, playing with Hula Hoops, and listening to live music.

      Meanwhile, Car Free Day on Main Street covered 30 blocks. It was billed as being free of charge, free of boring corporate stuff, and free of cars. Like the other parties, there were bands playing at a variety of locations.

      They were dancing on the Drive.
      Charlie Smith
      The fun continues into the early evening.
      Charlie Smith

      Comments

      2 Comments

      Ugh!

      Jun 21, 2015 at 6:39pm

      I was totally disgusted today to witness privileged, white and Asian hipsters strolling along a blocked Main St. shopping, eating and drinking on National Aboriginal Day. It was the same on Commercial Dr. What racist moron arranged for these capitalistic events on National Aboriginal Day? Even worse was the Dragon Boat Festival, which mocked First Nations historic method of travel by using boats patterned after those used in China!!! WTF?

      ursa minor

      Jun 22, 2015 at 11:49am

      @Ugh! If you didn't make it to Trout Lake for National Aboriginal Day events, that's your own fault. However, I don't think you actually care about National Aboriginal Day - you're a Christy Clark/Chip Wilson apologist throwing False Equivalence is everyone's face.

      Neither Car Free Day nor the Dragon Boat Festival used taxpayer dollars to reward BC Liberal supporters like Altagas and Lululemon (Wilson) with a farce of a spectacle like #OmtheBridge, using yoga to promote fracking and pipeline expansion in traditional Aboriginal territory, on, of all days, National Aboriginal Day.

      If you're actually looking for racists and morons, they may be closer to you than you may think...