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June 14th was the opening of the Golden Ears Bridge crossing between Pitt Meadows and Langley. It was also the same day as the Car Free Vancouver community festivals in four neighbourhoods. I realized a couple weeks ago not only that they were happening simultaneously, but that it would be a great opportunity to witness and contrast pedestrian celebrations. Props to TransLink for organizing an enjoyable day, though I understand that there were many challenges involved that made it less entertaining for others.
I was not originally planning on going to the GEB opening. The Saturday night previous, I was showing a friend some of my Super-8 film footage of Toronto, and the idea was sown: for the once-in-a-lifetime pedestrian opening of this bridge, I would document it with the heftiest medium at my disposal, a format worthy of the occasion.
So I spent a good two and a half hours taking the train, the bus, and walking to the celebration, weaving the crowds with my Super-8 camera in my left hand (loaded with 50m of film, about 180-200 seconds worth of capacity), and my Flip MinoHD with a gorillapod in my right (which stores 60 minutes of High Definition video on a 4GB hard drive).
I hope you enjoy the video, especially if you happen to be in it. The other footage will take a lot longer to put online, but I hope to do so before the summer is out.
I did also manage to make it to the Car Free Festivals in Vancouver later in the day. There is significantly less footage of those celebrations, but I think there will be enough there for episode 3…or at least an episode 2½.
