[Carfreeliving] GG Park Concourse previews pedestrian oasis

[A P Thornley]

Go to GG Park right now and check out the "soft opening" of the De 
Young and the Tea Garden side of the Concourse -- see the pedestrian 
oasis in real life!  Human beings on foot! on bikes! in strollers! on 
skates! no need for lanes, no need for speed limit, no need for 
textured pavement (not that it's got any real texture). Pretty nice, 
once the cyclone fence is gone. Of course it'd be swell to keep it 
without cars, that skinny "car" travel lane would make a nice 
counter-flow bike/skate lane . . .

[I guess I'll leave that "soft opening" thing alone, I don't want to 
be sucked into any cheap gags -- "Come visit our soft opening," purrs 
FAMSF Chair, we'll save you a parking spot on the Goldworthy" . . .]


	--Andy--