In case you didn’t hear the banshee-like cries of “Freeeeeedom! from kilted Kitsilano warriors with urine and ash-soaked hair as they raised their spears, shields and other crude weaponry in the air Monday night, the Vancouver park board has decided not to proceed with a separated bike path through Hadden Park, also known as Kits Beach Park, the Freedom Trail, the Holy Land, Splendour in the Grass and Mr. Robertson, Tear Down that Wall.
As previously mentioned in Kudos and Kvetches, protectors of Hadden Park bravely took a stand against city plans to bisect the sacred green space that would force law-abiding picnickers and Frisbee-playing families to share the park with two-wheeled death machines and the spandex-wearing hellions who so brazenly ride them. Protesters humbly compared their plight to that of civil rights figure Rosa Parks and went so far as to launch a legal action in B.C. Supreme Court against the proposed bike path, because ... you know ... bikes.
In case you’re wondering how the freedom fighters of the Save Kits Beach Now Coalition feel about their hard-fought victory, they’ll be raising their cups of mead in the air and comparing battle wounds at a press conference Feb. 19, 11:15 a.m. at Hadden Park.
