[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed

To me, that doesn't sound like she was pursuing the closure "just for fun", of course, that's not to say that the event wasn't planned to be a fun event. It also doesn't sound to me that nothing was planned before the closures were talked about, as you and others have insinuated. It sounds like to me that quite a bit had been planned, and of course, lot of other things remained to be planned after the location was finalized - which required the closure to be finalized.

I didn't really want to wade into this, but that sounds exactly like she was doing it just for fun, and that there was no festival involved.

When someone says something like
"I mean, we're talking about four Sundays, for Pete's sake -- can we just try it, and maybe have some fun, and see if it works."
That to me seems like there is nothing planned other than letting people walk/bike/rollerblade down the road. If there is a festival already in the works, why not mention it?