Comments on: Why is There a Picnic in My Parking Spot?

By: Sal

Sal — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:36:37 +0000

What a stupid idea by a bunch of ex hippie tree huggers. I hope they choke on the gas fumes they're forcing the cars to expel. These people should really get a life, I swear.

By: ruby

ruby — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:32:43 +0000

Did you all get permits? Our one unpermitted Chicago site got shut down quickly, twice, by hostile men from the Streets and Sanitation department who told us we were violating a code they wouldn't let me see and that I can't find now. Next year we'll plan ahead more and have tons of spaces!

By: mork

mork — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 19:19:17 +0000

Yes. The parents must be the worse kinds of public-space-advocate fiends.

Especially now that the parking-loving minority keeps succeeding in reducing the number of street cleaning days.

By: steve

steve — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 12:34:00 +0000

We had great fun visiting the various sites in Manhattan. I think the event was a great success for several reasons:

1. Raised awareness and critical understanding of car dominance through explicit education, in a format that was accessible to everyone.

2. Weakened the taboos against non-motorists being in the street that serve to protect the car dominance.

3. Brought the activist community together.

Thanks to all the organizers, and especially Austin at the Time's Up site who fixed my bike wheel after a car parked adjacent to the park(ing) site ran over it!

By: Dan Icolari

Dan Icolari — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 04:25:14 +0000

I heard from a participant at the International Parking Day event in front of the library in St. George (Staten Island) that the response of passersby was curiosity, mostly, without any expressions of hostility.
From what I heard, it seems to have been a success.

By: hmm

hmm — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 20:48:07 +0000

But aren't you violating the rule of the parking spot by vacating the spot when the meter expires?

By: Aaron Naparstek

Aaron Naparstek — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:52:20 +0000

I agree. That kid is cute. But what kind of lousy parents would let their child play in the gutter like that?

By: Willie Makit

Willie Makit — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:02:57 +0000

great photo. That little monkey with the hula hoop is cute yet bears a striking resemblance to Aaron Naparstek.

By: @alex

@alex — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:53:54 +0000

Herman - by your logic, we should never eliminate any parking spaces ever (even temporarily) and should in fact create more car parking to keep them from cruising around looking for parking.

I think you can see that this makes no sense; it would just encourage more car traffic.

Ideally, Park(ing) Day should get enough overwrought press that people will decide not to drive in(to) the city at all, for fear that all the parking spaces will be occupied by a bunch of crazy eco-hippies.

By: Aaron Naparstek

Aaron Naparstek — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:18:04 +0000

OK, OK. I've created an addendum. For the record, the world's first known parking squat seems to have taken place in 1935 in Oklahoma City.

By: Herman

Herman — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:39:26 +0000

i can understand the purpose of such an event, but i can't help but think of the extra environmental effects that this will cause when drivers are forced to drive around longer to find a parking space that's not occupied by these folks.

By: yeah, what he said

yeah, what he said — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:26:51 +0000

truedat,
truedat.
http://www.transalt.org/e-bulletin/2005/Nov/bedford_photoessay.html
word.

By: truedat

truedat — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:21:20 +0000

Where's your NYC pride? T.A. Did this in Brooklyn before the san friscans