Comments on: Car-Free Parks: Now More Than Ever http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/04/21/car-free-parks-now-more-than-ever/ Covering the New York City Streets Renaissance Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:01:47 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Angus Grieve-Smith http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/04/21/car-free-parks-now-more-than-ever/comment-page-1/#comment-49162 Angus Grieve-Smith Sun, 27 Apr 2008 05:26:16 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/04/21/car-free-parks-now-more-than-ever/#comment-49162 I took my laptop into Central Park on Thursday to enjoy the good weather and free wifi. I did not appreciate the cars on the drive. Really, it's about time. Keep up the good work, Ken - but hopefully you'll be looking for a new project soon. I took my laptop into Central Park on Thursday to enjoy the good weather and free wifi. I did not appreciate the cars on the drive. Really, it's about time. Keep up the good work, Ken - but hopefully you'll be looking for a new project soon.

]]> By: d http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/04/21/car-free-parks-now-more-than-ever/comment-page-1/#comment-48886 d Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:42:47 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/04/21/car-free-parks-now-more-than-ever/#comment-48886 I would like to see the east drive of Prospect Park closed full time. The west drive is closed and it benefits rich, white Park Slope residents. The east side is open and it affects poorer, black neighborhoods. Hardly fair or right. I would like to see the east drive of Prospect Park closed full time. The west drive is closed and it benefits rich, white Park Slope residents. The east side is open and it affects poorer, black neighborhoods. Hardly fair or right.

]]> By: Urbanis http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/04/21/car-free-parks-now-more-than-ever/comment-page-1/#comment-48784 Urbanis Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:41:23 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/04/21/car-free-parks-now-more-than-ever/#comment-48784 If New York adopts a Paris/Amsterdam-style makeover, we are in for a treat. I think actively taking space away from cars and giving it to pedestrians and cylists will more directly encourage walking and cycling and remove cars from the road than CP. With CP, there is always the danger that maintaining the current road capacity for cars but charging more for it may in the long run not do much to reduce car traffic (for example, I don't get the impression that significantly higher gas prices have resulted in fewer cars on the road-- because driving is still perceived as a necessity rather than one of many transportation options). That said, we certainly could have used the money from CP to improve mass transit. If New York adopts a Paris/Amsterdam-style makeover, we are in for a treat. I think actively taking space away from cars and giving it to pedestrians and cylists will more directly encourage walking and cycling and remove cars from the road than CP. With CP, there is always the danger that maintaining the current road capacity for cars but charging more for it may in the long run not do much to reduce car traffic (for example, I don't get the impression that significantly higher gas prices have resulted in fewer cars on the road-- because driving is still perceived as a necessity rather than one of many transportation options). That said, we certainly could have used the money from CP to improve mass transit.

]]> By: Larry Littlefield http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/04/21/car-free-parks-now-more-than-ever/comment-page-1/#comment-48748 Larry Littlefield Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:46:46 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/04/21/car-free-parks-now-more-than-ever/#comment-48748 This is an example of something that I had previously thought was a bad idea. Thanks to the CP debate I have no changed my mind. Driver's don't want the London solution? I'll go with Paris. Close the parks. Heck, I never get to drive in the park anyway because I don't drive to work and when I do drive it is closed anyway. The question is, what to do with the drives which were originally intended for carriages. Two-way biking on each side of the park would be a start -- theortically to go from Windsor Terrace to the library you have to ride all the way around. In Prospect Park, parking is another possiblity. There are plans to move parking for the skating rink into the center of the park after reconstruction. Instead, those driving to the rink could just parallel park along the road during the stretch that remained open. A horsecar line is another possiblity. www.r8ny.com/blog/larry_littlefield/a_horsecar_for_prospect_park.html This is an example of something that I had previously thought was a bad idea. Thanks to the CP debate I have no changed my mind.

Driver's don't want the London solution? I'll go with Paris. Close the parks. Heck, I never get to drive in the park anyway because I don't drive to work and when I do drive it is closed anyway.

The question is, what to do with the drives which were originally intended for carriages. Two-way biking on each side of the park would be a start -- theortically to go from Windsor Terrace to the library you have to ride all the way around.

In Prospect Park, parking is another possiblity. There are plans to move parking for the skating rink into the center of the park after reconstruction. Instead, those driving to the rink could just parallel park along the road during the stretch that remained open.

A horsecar line is another possiblity.

http://www.r8ny.com/blog/larry_littlefield/a_horsecar_for_prospect_park.html

]]> By: Mark Walker (formerly Mark) http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/04/21/car-free-parks-now-more-than-ever/comment-page-1/#comment-48746 Mark Walker (formerly Mark) Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:17:37 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/04/21/car-free-parks-now-more-than-ever/#comment-48746 Transportation Alternatives offers an interesting <a href="http://www.transalt.org/campaigns/cpark/chrono" rel="nofollow">chronology</a> of the Car-Free Central Park Campaign. I especially like the 1906 Times editorial describing cars in the park as "loud and odiferous." Transportation Alternatives offers an interesting chronology of the Car-Free Central Park Campaign. I especially like the 1906 Times editorial describing cars in the park as "loud and odiferous."

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