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Originally Posted by JiriHrdina
So don't shut down the road then....start with a nice little festival on the green area and pathways.
Or shut down a less major road like Kensington Road which would also bring the people closer to the businesses participating.
Lots of ideas - all of them better than what Druh came up with.
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Except for the ones that are far worse than the ideas Druh came up with.
Closing down Kensington Road and 10th as is done for the Salsa Festival is far more of a traffic disruption. It backs up Memorial, the 10th street bridge, and results in far more shortcutting through residential streets. It also makes it virtually impossible for people living in Sunnyside to get out of the neighbourhood. But because Memorial isn't offically closed down (just extremely backed up), nobody gets too upset about it.
I'd take this road-closure over a Kensington Road / 10th street closure any day; at least with this, traffic through Kensington and across the bridge is unaffected, making the quick and obvious shortcut through downtown possible, and leaving access to Sunnyside via 10th street open.