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Poster for this Year's Car Free Day, on a pole in the West End, at Denman and Davie. Click the image to enlarge.[/caption]
Four Vancouver neighbourhoods enjoyed a Car Free Father's Day on Sunday. Sections of Mount Pleasant's Main Street, East Vancouver's Commercial Drive, West Broadway, in Kitsilano, and Denman Avenue, in the West End, said no to cars and yes to pedestrians, cyclists, pet parades, musicians, and, in the West End, a big yes, to big bags of cigarette butts. ▼ The first Car Free Day was in 2005, on Commercial Drive, in the working class neighbourhood of East Vancouver. Year-by-year, the event is established in more neighbourhoods, along-side other popular neighbourhood block parties, such as Kitsilano's Greek Day, which is next Sunday, June 23, and East Vancouver's Italian Day, which was two weeks ago, on June 9.
Apparently, according to a National Post article, our city's administration is looking to combat loneliness in Vancouver with block parties, "lots of block parties. Soon, on a pre-determined Block Party Day, the people of Vancouver could traverse their entire city on overlapping networks of block parties and “see what each neighbourhood is made of,” The Post quotes our Mayor, Gregor Robertson, as saying.
According to an item in this morning's Province, newspaper, one of the groups pushing for a British Columbia-wide deposit program for cigarette butts, put their money where their mouth was, at Sunday's West End Car Free Day, The group called West End Cleanup, says it took in more than 60,000 cigarette butts, at a penny-a-butt, or $20 per pound. The group's spokesperson John Merzetti, pointed to a "snapshot" taken of 17 blocks in the West End, which found 25,000 cigarette butts littering the streets. ▲
Wow! I poked fun at the whole idea in an earlier post, but perhaps I should just butt out of this discussion. I guess there are a whole lot more cigarette smokers downtown than in my neighbourhood of Fairview.
Poster for this Year's Car Free Day, on a pole in the West End, at Denman and Davie. Click the image to enlarge.[/caption]Four Vancouver neighbourhoods enjoyed a Car Free Father's Day on Sunday. Sections of Mount Pleasant's Main Street, East Vancouver's Commercial Drive, West Broadway, in Kitsilano, and Denman Avenue, in the West End, said no to cars and yes to pedestrians, cyclists, pet parades, musicians, and, in the West End, a big yes, to big bags of cigarette butts. ▼ The first Car Free Day was in 2005, on Commercial Drive, in the working class neighbourhood of East Vancouver. Year-by-year, the event is established in more neighbourhoods, along-side other popular neighbourhood block parties, such as Kitsilano's Greek Day, which is next Sunday, June 23, and East Vancouver's Italian Day, which was two weeks ago, on June 9.
City-wide Block Party Day?
Apparently, according to a National Post article, our city's administration is looking to combat loneliness in Vancouver with block parties, "lots of block parties. Soon, on a pre-determined Block Party Day, the people of Vancouver could traverse their entire city on overlapping networks of block parties and “see what each neighbourhood is made of,” The Post quotes our Mayor, Gregor Robertson, as saying.
Penny per butt popular at West End Car Free Day
According to an item in this morning's Province, newspaper, one of the groups pushing for a British Columbia-wide deposit program for cigarette butts, put their money where their mouth was, at Sunday's West End Car Free Day, The group called West End Cleanup, says it took in more than 60,000 cigarette butts, at a penny-a-butt, or $20 per pound. The group's spokesperson John Merzetti, pointed to a "snapshot" taken of 17 blocks in the West End, which found 25,000 cigarette butts littering the streets. ▲
Wow! I poked fun at the whole idea in an earlier post, but perhaps I should just butt out of this discussion. I guess there are a whole lot more cigarette smokers downtown than in my neighbourhood of Fairview.
Vancouver City Councillor Adriane Carr throws her support behind the butt deposit ►
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