Local big box HW store (but one of their smallest stores) has closed their front doors on main street Monday to Friday. You know the doors near all the nice footpath seating.
Car brains ruining everything, and particularly main street.
Time for a letter to the council.
Out of all the ‘we must go back to the fifties’ screeching I’ve hears… none of it has been towards how cars destroyed mainstreet and how people could used to go to a corner store run and owned by a guy everyone knew. Hell, my grandad ran a store literally on the square for thirty years and not one mention at how the big box trends have destroyed that alongside zoning preventing suburbia from legally having those corner stores. I mean, christ-almighty. Suburbia wouldn’t be quite so bad if yo ucould have some light commercial in there. Not a lot, but enough where every mile or so were the kind of places one could walk to.
True, I don’t want to drive 15 minutes (each way) for a stupid onion o forgot to buy.
@singletona I’ve heard plenty about car centric design killing main street. Interesting what different parts people hear.
Helps to remember I live in DEEEP Qanon Trumpistaan. So while they do acknowledge these things if pointed out, it’s never a voluntary talking point. To me suggesting it isn’t a priority.