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Turning parking spaces into tiny little parks in Coolidge Corner
By adamg on Sat, 08/21/2010 - 11:13am
Linda reports that on Sept. 17, four parking spaces on either side of Harvard Street by the Upper Crust and the Friendly's will become impromptu parks:
In front of Upper Crust Pizza and the Coolidge Corner Theater there will be a colorful activity center with games and "movies" showing pavement to parks improvements from around the country.
Across the street, in front of Friendly's there will be an urban oasis where visitors can sit on the grass or in a beach chair and dangle their toes in the water or play in the sand.
It's part of an international effort to get people to reclaim their streets. One of the Brookline sponsors is the town transportation department, so presumably organizers won't have to keep feeding the meters.
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Did you see those renderings?
Did you see those renderings? Right flush up against traffic? That's even worse than running Storrow along the edge of the Esplanade.
I think all the carbon monoxide from their childhood in the parks has gotten to anyone who does city planning in Boston. The brain damage prevents them from conceiving of a world in which parks are not mixed directly with Masshole auto traffic.
And taking parking spots for this will only anger Masshole drivers, and reinforce the perception that livability is inconsistent with Masshole priorities.
How can they KEEP doing things like this?
It's a one-day thing
It's not intended to permanently replace four parking spaces.
So we don't even get real
So we don't even get real parks now, but mobile ones? Are they motorized? That would be the ultimate Masshole park.
Put stores in the parking spaces, not parks
Here's a guy who argues that green space is the wrong way to go, that we should be building back into the form of the Traditional City which has shops build right up onto the street where people can walk to them. I don't know if I agree but I thought it was an interesting idea.
http://www.newworldeconomics.com/archives/2010/012...
Why is it then when society
Why is it then when society isn't attacking urbanity in the name of increased space or safety for cars (highways) it is suburbanizing cities with mediocre open space at the cost of density. We trash our real open green spaces (like the Emerald Necklace) for the sake of traffic and try to shoehorn in parks in places where buildings really should be rebuilt (for example most of the Greenway and half the random pocket parks in the city where buildings have burned down).
Ah the good old days, when
Ah the good old days, when there were no cars parked along the street! Of course, there was the horse manure, either turned to soup in the rain, or dry and blowing and covering everything as dust. Yep,life was much better without cars!
PU Square
NotWhitey, there's still at least multi-gallon splooshes of horse piss in puddles in some areas of the city.
People walked more, bicycles
People walked more, bicycles were the equivalent of an exotic sportscar for the masses, there were a ton of electric streetcars to the point they created traffic jams, and the city had an army of people to constantly clean the streets.
Still got the good old nights....
Brookline still has the overnight parking ban right? At least they took back the night from cars!