Landau's Country Fresh Produce bicycle delivery, Brooklyn

Landau's Country Fresh Produce bicycle delivery, Brookland
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The Eastern Market merchants aren't keen on closing 7th Street in front of Eastern Market. Instead they are advocating for parking. Finally, they have it down right for closing the street, at least on Sundays, now that the vendors located on the street have permeable booths (meaning you can walk through).

I say that rather than encourage people to drive to the market, and frankly, there is no parking enforcement on Sundays so who is to say that the spaces truly turn over, that Eastern Market should offer shared delivery services.

Better that one delivery vehicle deliver to multiple people/households rather than have multiple cars come to the market.

There has never been an economic market study for Eastern Market.

There is no master plan for Eastern Market.

I doubt that a substantive transportation demand management study has ever been performed.

Or a survey of consumers who shop there (or who don't shop there).

It makes trying to create the best policies very very very very very very difficult.

Photos by Steve Pinkus.