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 was a freelance columnist with The Daily Memphian from 2018 to 2025.
What have we learned from the hard lesson of Overton Park’s greensward? What has the COVID experiment taught us?
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