Comments on: Summer Streets Coming to Brooklyn This Weekend

By: Centers and Squares

Centers and Squares — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 22:05:23 +0000

Car free afternoons are very popular in Boston and Cambridge where much of Memorial Drive along the Charles River is shut down on Sunday afternoons. Often I dream about the end of oil and a return to a world without cars. I can dream...

Liz

By: MrManhattan

MrManhattan — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:50:17 +0000

So what about "Summer Streets" in Manhattan?

Any word?

By: Larry Littlefield

Larry Littlefield — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:22:58 +0000

This is the future for better or worse -- we'll pay taxes but have to do things for ourselves even so. It's a lot cheaper to close a street than to build (or even maintain) a park.

Like the bicycle as a transport mode, this is a cheap version of parks and recreation. All that is required is a reallocation of space from motor vehicles.

I'm not sure necessity is spurring invention or invention is happening on its own, but were going to need solutions like these to have a decent life in the city following Generation Greed. Beats the usual thing politicians do to attract positive attention when there is no money -- planning studies.

By: ddartley

ddartley — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:05:40 +0000

This morning's METRO reports on this favorably:

http://metro.us/us/article/2009/06/05/02/2953-82/index.xml