Boston City Hall Plaza

[sandmonkey322]

I don't think this is the solution. I would much rather see a design that re-vamps pedestrian use.

[zfot66]

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[100kdesign]

City Hall Plaza, above and below, is presently a parking area for suburbanite city workers and scofflaws. Nothing more. It's a dead zone from a dead time and it needs to be fixed.

[mspadfoot]

A sucking void in the heart of Boston isn't good public space. That space would be much better used divided up into parcels for shops and apartments along traditionally-scaled streets. If you don't want the vehicle traffic, block off the streets with bollards and make them pedestrian/bicycle only, with parking for residents in the interior of the blocks.

[kjlkjl]

so give it over to vehicular traffic? I don't like that idea at all. Hanover or North Street connected to Cambridge street, I buy that, but not both, and certainly you don't need those connector streets. I agree that the intimacy of the scale of old Boston is missed, but taking away public space-- no matter how neglected-- is not the solution. Not to mention that you city hall location would block the view of the Old North Church from Tremont Street.