Meat Packing District en Pedestrian Sprawl Alert: Streets Gone Wild <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="schema:articleBody content:encoded"><p> Once upon a time public rights-of-way were simpler; they made sense.  The mobile laws of society were black and white.  Streets were for cars and sidewalks were for, well, walking on the side of the street.  You know, out of the way?  At some point recently though things have started to blur, and it's starting to get just a little bit out of control.  It's hard to put one's finger on it, but lately there's been this funny notion that the street itself, long the gift to man-and-machine, is supposed to be shared with people who just can't seem to keep themselves on their side of the curb.  Woe is me, in some instances there isn't even a curb anymore!  What's worse, it seems apparent that our public officials, the very people we elect to represent us an</p></div></div></div><span rel="schema:url" resource="/node/38291" class="rdf-meta"></span><span property="schema:name" content="Pedestrian Sprawl Alert: Streets Gone Wild" class="rdf-meta"></span><br /><br /><div><a href=""><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="" alt="Advertisement" /></a></div> Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:19:30 +0000 Ian Sacs 38291 at