Comments on: Park(ing) Day 2009: Sod trumped cars on some Twin Cities streets Friday

By: T-Paw Is A Jerk

T-Paw Is A Jerk — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:49:39 +0000

If not for the killing of the plants (the sod), this would have been a wonderful experience.

Killing is killing whether it is a human, an animal, or a plant. While we need to toletate some death of life as a part of surviving, this was a wanton destruction of life that could have been avoided.

Shame on you!

By: Paul Schmelzer

Paul Schmelzer — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:46:42 +0000

Thanks, Adam. I fixed it (in all three places: ugh).

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:22:45 +0000

Paul, the music school there on the corner of N. 3rd and Washington is IPR (Institute of Production and Recording) not IBR.

It’s my Alma mater! :P

Looks like fun – I wish I could’ve come. I could’ve brought a garden fountain!

-Adam

By: t

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:22:32 +0000

Wow, Annoymous. Does parking mean THAT much to you? There was a total of ten PARK(ing) Day spaces in the Twin Cities. If you don’t like it, I’m absolutely POSITIVE you can find another spot. Lighten up and have some fun.

By: Paul Schmelzer

Paul Schmelzer — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:29:20 +0000

A nice reply to Anonymous: http://greatdivide.typepad.com/across_the_great_divide/2009/09/parking-where-some-quarters-are-better-than-others.html

By: Design New Haven

Design New Haven — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 04:16:19 +0000

Here are a few photos of New Haven’s 3 spaces:
http://downtownnewhaven.blogspot.com/2009/09/new-haveners-embrace-sustainability.html

By: Sonia

Sonia — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:46:51 +0000

Whoa there, Anonymous. That’s a lot of animosity towards a relatively innocuous act of performance art. While I do agree that Park(ing) Day might be more relevant in cities that suffer from a real lack of green space (which, I believe, downtown Minneapolis does not), I think that any attempt to call us away from our usual downtown routine is not a bad thing. Okay, so maybe their efforts would be better spent lobbying for community spaces in parts of the city where they are actually needed, true — but those “harried good people” looking for parking spaces at Lake Harriet or (in this case) the North Loop, maybe they should try other means of transportation? We have some of the best urban bike trails in the country, and a darn good mass transit system to boot. If anything, Park(ing) Day should remind us that the expectation of abundant parking everywhere we go is a purely American expectation — less room taken up by cars and SUV’s means more room for public spaces that truly enhance our city.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:20:27 +0000

I suppose then the harried good people trying to find a parking space are allowed to go park on the green at Lake Harriet?
What a dose of pointless idiocy and youthful self-righteousness this is. And if looking at a bunch of self-absorbed, underemployed hipsters is to be seen as “injecting wonder” into the urban landscape, well, I think I’d be better off in Mumbai.