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This Sunday is Car-Free Day in Vancouver! What started off as a small closure of Commercial Drive in 2005 has now expanded to become a city-wide event. The shopping/walking communities of Downtown, Kitsilano, Main Street and Commercial Drive will each shut down multiple blocks of traffic and open up the streets to alternative forms of transportation - it’s amazing how communities become alive without cars grumbling through them all day. You see people out with dogs and children and strollers and rollerblades and flip-flops and stilts and unicycles and…my favourite - bicylces! So in honour of this awesome day where we see how the power of the people can create a vibrant city, I have found for all the gals out there a special, women-centric bicycle…the Vulva Taxi

Created by Finnish artist Mimosa Pale to protest a world that is ‘too man-parts-centric.’ Thrice weekly she invites residents of Helsinki to ride along in her taxi and help make her part of the world a little more female-friendly. Girls, let’s take back the streets!

Happy Car-Free Day!

This entry was posted on Friday, June 13th, 2008 at 5:17 pm by Sandra and is filed under Activism & Politics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.