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Originally Posted by JiriHrdina
Going around in circles but just because you can shut a road doesn't mean you should. Even if the impact was minimal, the upside was even less.
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I think you're right, this is really where the argument turns circular, but weighing the negative impact vs. the potential upside is such a judgement call. I certainly think that the potential of this festival outweighs the extra minute it takes to travel via downtown, though having six blocks of gridlocked traffic was less than ideal (though I still insist these people had nobody to blame but themselves).
The disruption was minimal and festival was minimal. This year was the absolute worst imaginable value proposition for the festival (I'm not going to sugar coat it and pretend it was a great time - it wasn't). But while the potential for the festival can increase exponentially, the potential disruption increases only slightly (and could actually be decreased through better planning and management).