Cities are made for people - PARKing day 2008

So a few of us put the call out to celebrate National Parking Day in Cleveland. Partially because it was a beautiful day, mostly because I think that raising awareness of designing cities for people instead of cars can make cities so much more interesting and enjoyable.

During our entire stint there was only a slight case of harassment (Escalade, go figure) and only a slight close call of someone mowing us down without looking at where they were driving. Most of the time people were very supportive. Not at all uncomfortable at the fact that someone actually made a yard downtown to sit in.

I suppose it was that everyone can enjoy sitting outside on a nice patch of grass in glorious weather watching the world go by. If anything I am surprised that no one said "screw work, I'm going to sit here all day too!"

Well, we didn't sit there all day. We stayed until 1.30 when we ran out of meter change and packed it up to go. Be on the lookout for the plethora of cell phone photos that we taken and since so many people asked what we were doing and why I can only hope perhaps more people will be willing to take the time to enjoy a brief respite once in a while and maybe place more import on people in cities then the cars that get them there.

PARKing Day Cleveland brought to you by LAUNCHcleveland and the regular crowd.