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Originally Posted by Turkle
However, regarding blocking the roads. In my experience, there is no "good" day to do this, people really do lose their minds over not being able to use a street for 1 day out of the year. It doesn't matter how much community outreach you do, or what mitigation plans you put in place. People will absolutely HOWL if they can't drive their car when/where they want at all times. If it's not harvest season, it's the school year, or it's church day, or whatever. So I'm very much inclined to ignore those complaints.
I mean, the Richmond marathon goes on at the exact same time every year here, it's not like it's a surprise that one day / year it will be hard to drive downtown. And everyone complains like it's an unprecedented burden!
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Not being able to "use a street" is a big deal if you live in a rural environment. There's a big difference between not being able to drive downtown during an event and not being able to leave your own property for most of the day.