Opinion: Close Riverside Drive to cars; open it to those who really count
A PST officer kept watch over a sparsely populated Tom Lee Park in March 2020 after Mayor Jim Strickland announced the city would limit access to city parks due to the pandemic and closed Riverside Drive. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian file)
Dan Conaway
Dan Conaway is a lifelong Memphian, fascinated and frustrated with his city, but still in love. A columnist since 2010, his distinguished advertising career has branded ribs in the Rendezvous and ducks in The Peabody, pandas in the zoo and Grizzlies in the NBA. Stories in Memphis tend to write themselves. He’s helped a few along. Two book collections of his columns have been published.
What have we learned from the hard lesson of Overton Park’s greensward? What has the COVID experiment taught us?
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