http://www.comoxvalleyecho.com/news/local-news/car-free-sunday-set-for-father-s-day-celebration-1.1970018 Car Free Sunday set for Father's Day celebration Michael Briones/Echo Staff / Comox Valley Echo June 16, 2015
[image http://imaginecomoxvalley.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ICV-2015car-free-sunday-poster.jpg ] It's called Car Free Sunday but don't take the name of the event literally. Organizers are saying you can still drive your vehicle and park it to attend the Father's Day event in downtown Courtenay from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on June 21. But a car free Sunday would definitely be a dream come true for supporters of the event. It aims to simply promote alternatives to traditional gas burning vehicles and challenge people to look at other means of transport. If you can leave your vehicle a home and travel to the event by bike, scooter, skateboard, rollerblades or just by walking, it would please the organizers a great deal. The Courtenay activity will be held in conjunction with other similar initiatives happening in Victoria and Vancouver ... "Car Free Sunday is to have us look at how we do transportation," said Courtenay councillor David Frisch, who is helping organize and promote this event. "Instead of designing our cities for cars, we want to look at other modes of transportation. So it's an opportunity to come out and see streets close down and experience how it might otherwise be used." Frisch has managed to arrange three electric cars to be on display that day. "Greenhouse gas emissions are a big problem right now especially with global warming happening in our community," said Frisch, who sold his conventional vehicle and bought an electric car for his family. "These three cars that we are going to have downtown will show people what's possible. You don't have to burn oil and you can cut the oil companies from your life and still be able to travel efficiently and effectively." [© 2015 Comox Valley Echo] For EVLN posts use: http://evdl.org/evln/ {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVent-EVs-Car-Free-Sunday-10a-2p-6-21-courtenay-ca-tp4676285.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
