Results tagged “carfree”

Walk, bike, or take transit, just leave your car out of it. Tomorrow is Car Free Day. The City has sort of turned around on not doing anything last year and this year a chunk of Yonge Street (Dundas to Shuter, around Dundas Sq.) will be car free for a couple of hours.

Due to gaping holes in St. George St. (Street George Saint, as the kids say) Street Beat has been denied a permit to hold a street festival on the University's campus on September 22nd. The fledgling street festival, a self-described "car free celebration", was created to address Toronto's failure to hold a meaningful Car Free Day in 2005. St. George Street was seen as a model pedestrian street with an abundance of food vendors,...

The city has reneged on $100,000 of coloured currency intended to support car free day, according to Councillor Jane Pitfield. The funds were intended to pay for road closures, but now, instead of closing off urban thoroughfares, the City will just strongly encourage employees to take public transit. What to make of it? Well, as council deliberates how to cut the TTC's budget further, it seems a slightly foolish thing to shell out a hundred grand for an event that will not have an entirely tangible effect on the way we drive now. In fact, CFDays usually tend to see people do what they normally do (bikers will continue to bike, and drivers will continue to drive and utter profanities about road closures!). We're bummed that the event won't take place with road closures, but we're more bummed that the TTC has to cut 45 mil from its budget. The Harbord bus already arrives at half past never, so our personal bias would be for council to plow the 100K into fixing that route. For TOist everyday is car free day.