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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just as an experiment this past weekend, we set out a cafe table and two chairs in the street just behind the slow street barricade at the end of our block on 48th street near Van Ness st.

It was clearly apparent to anyone that it was being used as a place for people to gather or sit.

Within an hour, a car had run into one of the chairs, smashing one of the legs badly.

The slow streets need to be CLOSED streets. Only accessible to people who actually live ON that street. Cut-through traffic needs to be eliminated altogether. [/quote]

But also, drivers who can't avoid crashing their car into a chair shouldn't be allowed on any road.[/quote]

We may just get some yellow construction warning tape and block off one end of the street completely next time. [/quote]

You do realize that's obstructing a public highway, illegal, and subject to a fine.[/quote]

who cares? cars shouldn’t have the right to 1/2 of the public space everywhere. [/quote]

If you want to sit at a table, do it in your house or in a park or on the sidewalk on in a yard. You have plenty of places to go. Stay out of the road, moron.[/quote]

pedestrians and bike riders actually belong in the road. slow the f down moron - you don’t own the road.  [/quote]

Pediatricians already have space reserved for them — they’re called sidewalks. Ditto bicyclists — we have miles and miles and miles of bike lanes. Stop hassling people merely because they drive cars.[/quote]

Nope. Bikes ride in the street on slow streets - some of them have bike lines, but others are generally calm enough not to need bike lanes.  And of course pedestrians are in the street to cross, enter and exit cars, and sometimes for safety during COVID to maintain 6-feet distance.  [/quote]

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