by Charlie Quimby for his blog Across the Great Divide.

This post was written in response to an anonymous comment (aren’t those always the best kind?) left on Paul Schmelzer’s recent article about PARK(ing) Day for the Minnesota Independent. To quote Mr. Quimby:

Where Mr. Anonymous detects self-righteousness and self-absorption, I found a friendly invitation to sit and talk with strangers — not what would anyone expect to encounter at a street parking space, in a ramp, or glaring through the tinted power window of an Escalade.

The “wonder” being injected was not that urban spaces could use more greenery and hipsters — or even to show how easily a small piece of asphalt could be transformed to a community space. It was to make us question why we tolerate the barren monoclines created because of our autodependence.

We couldn’t have said it better ourselves!