Car Free Day...

Is it supposed to be a care free day as well?

Does everybody get a car for free too?

Today after work, I waited for the Queen Street West
501 Streetcar, at the corner of Queen and Soho,
in front of the Black Bull.

I was listening to my Zen Micro,
but could hear the beat of drums in the distance.

I looked West, towards Spadina, and saw a
crowds of people marching, under a large tarp.

As this crowd of marchers approached,
I could see a sign indicating that they were marching
for Car Free Day.

Of course, they were marching at a very very slow pace,
holding up traffic behind them, for as far as I could see.

It was an interesting crowd, walking, inline skating,
and riding bikes, at this unbelievably slow pace.
Most were the long haired, hippy type, that looked like
they would be familiar with a certain herb.

After they had gone by, and the traffic was moving behind
very impatiently, I was thinking that what they are doing
is probably not doing much for their cause. Instead of
trying to get drivers to leave their cars at home, they were
just aggravating them, creating a hostile environment between
the two parties.

I'm sure most of those drivers, especially the cabbies,
were cursing these marchers for holding them up,
and thinking that they will drive their cars just to spite them.

DB