Residents and
backpacking tourists in Canada celebrated Car-Free Vancouver Day at four fun-filled events yesterday.
For one day only, cars were banned along the usually busy thoroughfares of Commercial Drive, Main Street and other West End areas.
More than 125,000 environmentally aware revelers turned out for this year's fourth consecutive freebie festival.
Although street parties took place all over the city, the pick of the main events was doubtless the Commercial Drive party.
This attracted around 60,000 people and was described as "wall-to-wall madness" by the event co-founder, Carmen Mills, in the Vancouver Sun.
Meanwhile, celebrations at other locations included block parties, food and craft sales, as well as live music and dance.
Another event organizer, Charles Latimer, explained the events philosophy to CTV.
"The whole point of this is that we want to build our communities and our cities around people as opposed to around cars," he explained.
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