Its hilarious to read about our city's consternation over their own inability to fix something that isn't broken. While I don't hold a degree in civic planning from ASU online (wait this diploma is just a placemat from Ruby Tuesdays) I do however regularly drive, bike, and walk through downtown. It is clear that whoever decided to end north bound traffic on S. Virginia at city hall has never had to do any of the three. It seems as if the city is haphazardly making micro-amendments to the flow of traffic as it suites the needs of a specific corridor without however taking into account the affect it will have on the system as a whole... In 1960's cities across the country experimented with different pedestrian focused approaches to urban blight. Closing off traffic and in some instances literally tearing up the street and replacing it with trees and park spaces. While many of these experiments were outright failures they still stand as case studies to not only learn from but to provide scope and possibly even a blueprint to work outwardly from. Larger cities that experimented with civic adaptive reuse have done just that; allowing for past blunders to become a narrative on lessons learned. https://www.arts.gov/sites/default/files/SprawlPubSpace.pdfhttps://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-downtown-in-downtown-los-angeless-manifest-destiny/
Its hilarious to read about our city's consternation over their own inability to fix something that isn't broken. While I don't hold a degree in civic planning from ASU online (wait this diploma is just a placemat from Ruby Tuesdays) I do however regularly drive, bike, and walk through downtown. It is clear that whoever decided to end north bound traffic on S. Virginia at city hall has never had to do any of the three. It seems as if the city is haphazardly making micro-amendments to the flow of traffic as it suites the needs of a specific corridor without however taking into account the affect it will have on the system as a whole... In 1960's cities across the country experimented with different pedestrian focused approaches to urban blight. Closing off traffic and in some instances literally tearing up the street and replacing it with trees and park spaces. While many of these experiments were outright failures they still stand as case studies to not only learn from but to provide scope and possibly even a blueprint to work outwardly from. Larger cities that experimented with civic adaptive reuse have done just that; allowing for past blunders to become a narrative on lessons learned. https://www.arts.gov/sites/default/files/SprawlPubSpace.pdf https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-downtown-in-downtown-los-angeless-manifest-destiny/