I remember very vividly these couple days a year where Toronto would close some of its main streets for the day and people could go out, bike, meet each other, and activity for kids were organized in the street.

It was lovely and I remember being so surprised you could actually hear the birds like in the woods! Any other day it was so loud it could be difficult to even talk to each other (not to mention the stench)

And yet it was a major struggle to keep this happening every year with people and counselors fighting the event organizers every single year because how are we ever going to survive without our cars for 12h on a weekend once a year?

Same city where I couldn’t get anyone to do anything about the garbage trucks picking up and loudly banging metal trash containers at 3am. Fuck this noise (literally), I’m never living in a city again.