Welcome to Car-Free Vancouver, a blog celebrating car-free living in Metro Vancouver. I’m a Gen Y’er who has never owned a car, although I confess that I sometimes spend too much time as a passenger in cars when I visit family in Ontario, Prince Edward Island and Texas.
At home in Vancouver, I walk, ride my bike and take transit to get almost everywhere. I value each of these modes of transportation and will focus on all of them and others in my Car-Free Vancouver posts. Occasionally, I will write about car sharing as I consider this a good alternative to car ownership and a realistic starting point for many urbanites who are considering giving up their private vehicles.
While I’m nearly always car free, I’m also a museum librarian, lover of the arts, an avid movie watcher and one who dabbles (in the past few years I’ve taken photography, cooking, sewing, Spanish and Japanese lessons). I’m a member of the Car Free Vancouver Society but all views expressed on this site are entirely my own. Vancouver has been my home since 2005.
Shannon LaBelle, Vancouver, BC, Canada
shannon[at]smlabelle[dot]com
