new york is going car-free! (kind of)
… for three saturdays in a row, the city will be shutting down some major thoroughfares. the idea being to reconsider the idea of the road … from something used by destructive, ugly pollution machines to something that ressembles a park …
there isn’t a day that goes by that i don’t long for parts of montreal to do the same, although with greater vision. i say pull up the asphalt on some neighbourhood streets, and turn them into green zones, with grasses, shrubs and flowers giving our kids (and adults) places to play.
the time for roads is done in my opinion.
… and yes, there will be adjustments that need to be made … figuring out deliveries for businesses, and helping those with limited mobility and/or large parcels get around … but these are small problems that can be solved …
but first we have to give ourselves the right to solve these problems, and make our lives more liveable.
here is the article on new york’s experiment.
