Imagine wandering down your local high street on a Summer's evening and being able to find diverse market stalls, alfresco eats, as well as live music.
Why do it on a street? I’d much rather do it on a footpath. Or a school sports oval. You know, the places we already have diverse markets, tasty food, live music, etc every weekend in Australian cities.
My local market runs on the main street of a beach suburb, and it causes all kinds of disruption. For example if you stay in one of the hotels there, you can’t access the hotel car park which catches tourists out all the time - the road closes at 5am and if their car was in the park overnight - too bad, can’t use the car until 5pm. Sucks to be you if you’re flying out of the country that day and now you have to pay whatever the hire company will charge to pick up your car from the hotel.
And, being the main thoroughfare in the suburb obviously it’s also the bus route. Except on market days. On market days all of the places people want to access (even the market) effectively don’t have public transport. It’s a 45 minute walk in often very hot weather to the nearest bus stop. Waiting for a Taxi will take even longer since they’re like 10x busier on market days.
Every other breach market in the city is on the footpath between the main street and the beach. That works a thousand times better.
Why do it on a street? I’d much rather do it on a footpath. Or a school sports oval. You know, the places we already have diverse markets, tasty food, live music, etc every weekend in Australian cities.
My local market runs on the main street of a beach suburb, and it causes all kinds of disruption. For example if you stay in one of the hotels there, you can’t access the hotel car park which catches tourists out all the time - the road closes at 5am and if their car was in the park overnight - too bad, can’t use the car until 5pm. Sucks to be you if you’re flying out of the country that day and now you have to pay whatever the hire company will charge to pick up your car from the hotel.
And, being the main thoroughfare in the suburb obviously it’s also the bus route. Except on market days. On market days all of the places people want to access (even the market) effectively don’t have public transport. It’s a 45 minute walk in often very hot weather to the nearest bus stop. Waiting for a Taxi will take even longer since they’re like 10x busier on market days.
Every other breach market in the city is on the footpath between the main street and the beach. That works a thousand times better.