PARKing Day photos...

[turil.livejournal.com]

Around the corner from Davis, most of the day, along Mass Ave from Day street all the way down to ATA Cycles, past Porter, are a smattering of groups taking over parking spaces and turning them into parks, with more or less rates of success. :-) There is rumored to be Blues Dancing in front of the Porter Square Galaria (where the Lesley Bookstore, City Sports, and all the Japanese fast food places are) in the evening. The Hoop Troop/SCUL folks are in front of Bob Slate, at the corner of Beech Street.

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[ocschwar.livejournal.com]

I'll have you know, I am actually a money grubbing yuppie, not a hippie, and my less than immaculate grooming is because I am flaunting my lack of any need to care, not because I think body odor is a tool for making the world a better place.

And I also think there are better uses for all this public space than parking cars, which costs way more money just for the asphalt than it brings into the city through meter rates. Again, not because I'm a hippie, but because I'm yuppie enough to have gone to Europe and been impressed.

[visage.livejournal.com]

...and here I thought you were just perpetually running for UMOC.

[ocschwar.livejournal.com]

One day, that title, which is rightfully mine, will be mine!

[koloratur.livejournal.com]

Which car-less European cities were you most impressed with? Just curious.

[ocschwar.livejournal.com]

Amsterdam is certainly a contender, but I was actually more impressed with rural Austria. That country is still very much automobile country, but most of their roads aren't even 2 lanes. One lane only. If two cars in opposite directions come to each other, one of them has to duck into a driveway, or back up to the intersection to let the other through. It seems crazy, but the amount of money they save by not having to maintain so much roadway, is actually a major part of why they are so wealthy. They also save because with such meager roads, they don't have to have the hard core water filtering plants you see in the States. And those crazy narrow one lane roads are meticulous.