Victoria Park

[jwilliamson]

Except your adopted country does this all the time: modal filters.

It reduces traffic, slows speeds, but at the same time leaves it open as a cycling through route and maintains access for event set-up.

You may not live here anymore, but as a nearby resident, I like going to Ribfest, Bluesfest, and everything else that needs vehicle access to make happen.

There are exactly 0 parks in the Netherlands which are open to cars. Modal filters are used on streets, not parks.

The Vondelpark in Amsterdam has a section that is cut off from the rest of the park by Van Baerlestraat. The Rembrandtpark has Postjesweg cutting through it. The Stadspark Maastricht has a road cutting through dividing it from the otherwise indistinguishable Monseignur Nolenspark. There's a road splitting the Wilhelminapark in Apeldoorn from the Verzetstrijderspark.

If we renamed half of Victoria park to Kaiserwilhelmspark, it would be no different from any pair of parks that are divided by a road between them in the Netherlands.