“I don’t think people have said what they want to do with the space. Is this just for the hell of it? So people can wander?” said Joseph Martin, who teaches civil engineering at Drexel University. “Someone is using that road to go from somewhere to somewhere. So how do the needs of advocates that want to play dog Frisbee in front of their house exceed the people in their cars and their needs? That’s pretty arrogant.”
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Resistance could also come from city drivers and commuters. To Drexel’s Martin, a self-described city boy who drives to work from his home in Havertown , a no-car day also takes the soul out of what makes an urban metropolis just that. “The hustle and bustle of the city,” he said, “it’s part of the excitement.
“City boy.” Yeah. Okay.
