Fourteen years ago, Car Free Day on Commercial Drive was conceived by two sustainable-transportation activists, Matt Hern and Carmen Mills, to generate awareness about a massive provincial road-building progam.

They wanted to do something celebratory to bring people together.

“Our tag line was ‘More community equals less cars and less cars equal more community,’ ” Hern told the Straight last year.

Since then, it's evolved into one of the city's more popular festivals.

The Drive was certainly alive yesterday, minus motorized transport.

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