Imagination

[turil.livejournal.com]

What if the metered parking spaces were opened up to other uses, in addition to parking a car? What would you do if you could rent a space on the side of the street in Davis Square for a dollar an hour (or whatever it's up to these days) to use as a farm stand to sell the veggies you grew in your community garden, or a Bull Market cart to sell your handmade socks, or a space to put your Tarot readings tent, or whatever other legal, private use you can imagine might be appropriate for a bit of temporary business-zoned square footage in the square...

Comments

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

I see this ending in fire.

There's actually an excellent reason they don't do this: lines. People line up at the stall and where does the line have to go but the road?

Now, if they wanted to implement metered stall space in, say, public parks, I think that'd be interesting. Just not parking spaces, people don't need to risk death to get ice cream.

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

The stall could face the sidewalk...

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

And therefore block the sidewalk?

I'm not adamantly against the idea of metered stall space at all. I just don't think it should be directly on the road. :-)

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that would be a drawback if the stall were really popular, but (a) it would have to be really popular and (b) if people have to be standing around somewhere, the sidewalk seems more logical than the road. I think there's generally room for some to linger and others to pass as long as the lingerers are not incredibly numerous and keep to the side.