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Originally Posted by 4X4
It was the idea from the get go. That's exactly what they said they wanted to do... Close the road so that people would bike and walk on it. Why are you so unclear on this. We're the ones that started calling it a festival and equating it to a festival - because hopefully that's what it becomes.
edit* beaten by thneed
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As someone who actually biked on the closed road that day, I have to say that it was a fail if that was the objective. The length of the closure was too short to really be meaningful, and then then at the east end, where the closure ended there was no way to get back onto the pathway as it is physically separated from the roadway there. I would much rather have stayed on the pathway where there is at least something to see. But they'd set up all the tents by the pathway so there was a lot of pedestrian congestion. Really, if anything, it was a detriment to biking.
As constructive feedback, I'd say they should use the street next year for the tents and displays, and leave the pathway clear for travel.