2009:
Streets are for People poster for World CARFREE Day 2009 in Toronto.
5th Annual World Carfree Day Parade - Tuesday September 22, 2009
Join over 100,000 million people in more than 1500 cities worldwide to celebrate a move away from car culture.
Hosted by Streets are for People!
Meet at 5 p.m. south gates of Trinity Bellwoods park .
Bring horns and bells and drums, and a sense of good cheer.
2008:
Join millions of people around the globe in celebration of WORLD CARFREE DAY 2008
Sunday September 21, 2008
THREE WAYS TO PARTY
PARKING METER PARTIES - What can you do with a 6′x12′ parking space?
Queen St. West - from Bathurst St. to Trinity Bellwoods Park
All day - pay for a parking spot then breathe culture back into public space normally used for car storage.
Bring a band and play music, have a picnic, play games, whatever you like.
The space is yours for only $2/hour.
BELLS ON BLOOR - Bike Ride
4 p.m. - meet at Bloor and Spadina for a special critical mass style ride, then join up with parade.
PARADE - 4th annual parade down Queen Street West
4 p.m. - meet at south gates of Trinity Bellwoods Park
5 p.m. - Parade east to Old City Hall
Bring horns and bells and drums. Bring your friends. Bring your mums. Bring bikes and trikes and things that are silly. Bring costumes and banners and wings that are frilly. Bring sense of humour, and sense of fun. We’ll party like our team just won. (ok-that’s enough. You get the idea.)
Don’t miss the surprise when three parties meet!
2007 (Last Year):
World Carfree Day!
Streets are for People poster for World CARFREE Day in Toronto. Join millions of people in over 1,500 cities around the globe in celebration of WORLD CARFREE DAY!
In Toronto, SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 22nd come out and show how much fun carfreedom can be!
Host a PARKING METER PARTY along Queen Street West from 1 p.m., then join the CARFREE PARADE at 6:00 (5:00 assembly at Trinity Bellwoods Park, heading east)
BRING YOUR: family, bike gang, best friend, band, costumes, banners, instruments, human powered floats, badminton rackets, dance party, clown troupe, cardboard, crayons, imagination, sense of humour, whatever you do best!
DON'T BRING: a car!
HOW TO HOST A PARKING METER PARTY
JUST IMAGINE: WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH A 6 X 12 FOOT PARKING SPACE?
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Scout out a parking spot where you'd like to spend the afternoon
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Park your non-motorized "vehicle" (i.e. your bike, trike, roller-skates, dinky-car) along Queen West
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Pay the meter. For $1.50/hr the spot is yours! (be sure to display your parking receipt on the "dash" of your "vehicle"!)
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Have fun showing Toronto how much fun carfreedom will be! dance! paint! play a game! read a book! make music! make people smile!
It's fun! It's legal!
Bring your fellow revolutionaries!
Shaw Street Block Party
The residents of Shaw Street, north of Bloor, are hosting their first ever Shaw Street Block Party to mark World Carfree Day.
SHAW STREET between Leeds and Irene, will be CLOSED to cars from 9:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. on Saturday September 22, 2007.
