Acquiring Food During a Pandemic

[danbrotherston]

It would be a great time to close Eby to traffic by the market... at least half the road so the new city traffic can still get out, but we'd need to have by-law or auxilary police there to really force the cars to actually move instead of just blocking the road.

Well, to be honest, I think New City should just deal with not having vehicle access on Saturday mornings, I mean, there's limited value with the small parking lot and a huge cost with the idling intrusive cars (and worse, the ones who drive up the sidewalk around them). I mean, I realize to some people, this is unthinkable, but objectively, it's quite reasonable.

That being said, there are a number of different options for spreading out the market, we have a ton of space around, if we're only willing to claw some back from cars. I personally like the Eby/Market Ln option, and it's probably the least disruptive, but you could also close King St. and spread the vendors all the way up King. Or even on Cedar.  Both of which would greatly increase the visibility of the Market over the tucked away position on Eby/Market Ln.  Of course, it would mostly be visible to local traffic (foot and car) which probably know about it already...but that's just a guess.

I mean, I personally would like to try out different options to see how well they work, but I'm a radical pro-change guy who can deal with week to week change like that to help find an optimal solution, or even just to spread out the visibility. I'm sure that change wouldn't be popular with everyone.