Newbury Street will be shut to cars between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. on Aug. 15, 22 and 29, BTD announced today.
The return of Open Newbury Street will be between Berkeley Street and Massachusetts Avenue those days.
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Do you mean one Thursday and two Sundays?
By Ron Newman
Fri, 07/30/2021 - 10:50am
August 15, 22, and 29
By KellyJMF
Fri, 07/30/2021 - 11:03am
Linked article has the correct dates.
Yep
By adamg
Fri, 07/30/2021 - 11:10am
And now so does my post.
Wishful thinking
By anon
Fri, 07/30/2021 - 11:35am
But I'm certain we'll be on lockdown by the first date!
This should be permanent
By fungwah
Fri, 07/30/2021 - 11:38am
but barring that, it should at least be more common and obviously scheduled so people and businesses can actually plan for it. How about every Sunday or every weekend in the summer or something similar?
Those poor businesses!
By Ari O
Fri, 07/30/2021 - 11:43am
How ever will they survive without ample parking on Newbury Street?
It would be interesting to know actually
By Parkwayne
Fri, 07/30/2021 - 12:08pm
How much of their traffic depends on people taking the train / walking / biking vs. tourists staying in local hotels vs. (rich) people driving in from Newton or Winchester, etc... It's nice when it is pedestrian only though for sure but I don't actually know what the impacts are on the businesses.
It is very hard to get
By Anon
Fri, 07/30/2021 - 1:04pm
It is very hard to get accurate numbers from businesses. When you work with lots of businesses you find that even when it benefits their bottom line to do things a certain way they will generally revert to playing up the way they prefer.
The best way to gauge impact would be people counting. See how many people were on the street on what days. You could even pick a few stores and do pedestrian counts going in and out of those stores. Developers are required to do this all the time with traffic and other studies. Just hire one of those companies and test several days of open and closed. Then adjust for weather impacts and special events.
The cheap and easy version is to use Google data. Google already has a generally decent sense of how busy an area is vs regular traffic. It knows in real time and tell you if stores and large areas are busier now than normal. I imagine there must be some way to harness that info.
Yea probably doesn’t matter if it’s one street.
By Pete Nice
Fri, 07/30/2021 - 1:05pm
People who drive will still drive.
Yes.
By Lee
Sat, 07/31/2021 - 11:05am
And then they also get the benefit of a pedestrian only stroll.
Doesn’t seem fair but what ya gonna do.
Easily
By Ron Newman
Fri, 07/30/2021 - 12:26pm
There are garages a block away in the Prudential and Copley Place.
Yes! Now please make it
By cden4
Fri, 07/30/2021 - 1:48pm
Yes! Now please make it permanent!
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