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Local shopping street in the city of Montréal, It’s the beginning of the summer here, and more and more streets are being closed to cars every summer (although they’re reopened during the cold Canadian winters), the difference in the amount of people there now vs last week when it was still open to cars is absurd.
Since It’s the beginning of the summer there was a marching band to celebrate, which was nice.
Businesses set up stands where they sold stuff, offered free samples and stuff like that, and there was also seating and games set out for kids, like a bouncy castle, some (mini) mini-golf courses and a mini skate park.
Just closing the street to cars made the space much nicer, and there were way more people there than when the street was open to cars.
Ouais, c’est dommage qu’il y ait encore beaucoup de gens contre ce genre de projet, par contre, je suis heureux qu’il y ait quand même de plus en plus de routes qui sont bloquées aux voitures chaque année !
L’gros, comment eske que je fais pour me rende au centre-ville si j’ai pas mon char?!
J’habite dans un quartier où je peux faire 99% de mon day to day à maximum 10 minutes de marche et c’est la belle vie. Le moins de temps je passe dans ma voiture, le mieux ma santé mentale se porte.
Sa nous prendrais sa dans des plus petites villes. Malheureusement la ville a pas été designé pour, si ta pas de char, tu va nulle part.
So true. I bought an e-bike last autumn and have been using it for pretty much everything since then, but haven’t considered myself fully car-clean until a few weeks ago when I consciously experienced car brain for the first time. My bike was at the repair shop and I had to drive my daughter to daycare instead of biking there. A 5min ride became a 15min nightmare with traffic, anger and frustration, mixed with anxiety of being late. I don’t think driving does that but traffic messes with our brains and our mental health so much. It’s crazy that we consider this mental state “normal” while going somewhere.