Design Nerd Jam 5.3 – Pedal Powered Railway Parade

This Nerd Jam on April 1 was hosted by the Gramorail Crew. Participants came out to help plan the long-anticipated Pedal Powered Railway Parade! The Gramorail took its maiden voyage down the Arbutus Corridor, and we needed everyone’s help to make the Parade awesome.

To recap: We built these pedal-powered railway machines with the hope that, someday, we’d take them down the Arbutus Corridor and, in doing so, freak out a lot of otherwise normal people. Some of them, upon seeing a gramorail-laden steel and wood contraption gliding effortlessly across Broadway, while a gaggle of strangely dressed weirdos made grand sweeping gestures and played improvised instruments, might have reconsidered their own myopic little world and decided to take up Balinese monkey chanting.

Or something to that effect.

The parade was planned for that summer. Other than that, nothing was really set in stone. Only one thing was certain: this had never been attempted before.”