A major part of the Baguio Flower Festival 2008 (or as the barriotic call it, the Panagbenga 2008) is the regular closure of Session Road, Baguio City’s main thoroughfare, from vehicular traffic and its conversion into a large swath of sidewalks cafés, food stalls, flower shops, micro performance venues, and more food stalls.
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It’s no Ayala Avenue or Roxas Boulevard, but Baguio City’s most prominent thoroughfare could rival the busiest Manila street in terms of pedestrian traffic alone, not to mention mastodon-sized vehicular snarls. The renowned urban planner Daniel J. Burnham, tasked with developing a health resort town for overheating American colonizers, drew up plans for this mountain [...]