Comments on: Seattle Starts Car-Free Closures http://seattle.metblogs.com/2008/07/30/seattle-starts-car-free-closures/ Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:15:38 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Welcome to the crosswalk | billso.com http://seattle.metblogs.com/2008/07/30/seattle-starts-car-free-closures/comment-page-1/#comment-15497 Welcome to the crosswalk | billso.com Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:20:55 +0000 http://seattle.metblogs.com/2008/07/30/seattle-starts-car-free-closures/#comment-15497 [...] Seattle has started closing streets to cars, to help protect pedestrians (see Seattle Starts Car-Free Closures). [...] [...] Seattle has started closing streets to cars, to help protect pedestrians (see Seattle Starts Car-Free Closures). [...]

]]> By: Ryan http://seattle.metblogs.com/2008/07/30/seattle-starts-car-free-closures/comment-page-1/#comment-15454 Ryan Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:31:12 +0000 http://seattle.metblogs.com/2008/07/30/seattle-starts-car-free-closures/#comment-15454 Closing streets like this is a great idea. Bogota, Columbia is famous for doing <a href="http://www.streetfilms.org/archives/ciclovia/" rel="nofollow">just this</a> and it transformed their city. <blockquote>On Sunday we spent the entire day - from 5 AM 'til nearly 5 PM - riding bicycles around the city courtesy of the Ciclovia, a weekly event in which over 70 miles of city streets are closed to traffic where residents come out to walk, bike, run, skate, recreate, picnic, and talk with family, neighbors & strangers...it is simply one of the most moving experiences I have had in my entire life.</blockquote> Closing streets like this is a great idea. Bogota, Columbia is famous for doing just this and it transformed their city.

On Sunday we spent the entire day – from 5 AM ’til nearly 5 PM – riding bicycles around the city courtesy of the Ciclovia, a weekly event in which over 70 miles of city streets are closed to traffic where residents come out to walk, bike, run, skate, recreate, picnic, and talk with family, neighbors & strangers…it is simply one of the most moving experiences I have had in my entire life.

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