Stupid idea of the year
Supervisor Chris Daly wants to close Market Street to all but mass transit traffic.
As I wrote in May, that idea has failed in city after city. In Chicago, State Street — “that great street” — utterly died when they tried it there. They re-opened the street to all traffic a few years ago, and the street is recovering.
Market Street isn’t some quaint pedestrian mall like Boulder’s Pearl Street, and it never will be. It’s a living artery in a major city. Daly’s plan would be an economic and social disaster.
Not sure if I agree Mark. From what I’ve read the supes are entertaining a kind of partial closure… more like amsterdam, less like boulder. And that sounds kind of interesting imho.
I can’t say I’m really too impressed with this Chris Daly character. Every piece of his proposed legislation that I’ve read about over the past year or so seems to be, as a rule, pretty ill-conceived. It’s unfortunate that he won’t be termed out (as I understand it) until 2010.