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Originally Posted by MR. Cosmopolitan
Hey that's a very good idea for the future, we could allow access only for bus in some parts of downtown and other transform them into completely vehicle free streets and cars would only be allowed on major avenues, looking at it in a more realistic way.
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as it happens, the Times has a blog discussion (including our dear randall o'toole, unfortunately) about this very thing in nyc this morning:
http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/27/pedestrian-malls-back-to-the-future/. i would imagine that here in portland the business community would be up in arms over such a thing. otoh, i could imagine it possibly working in a couple small locations - for example, park and 9th on both sides of pb5.
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