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 in a lifelong relationship with his city. They fight, but they get back together. His new book – “In a Colorful Place” – is a collection of his columns and the columns of Otis Sanford.
What have we learned from the hard lesson of Overton Park’s greensward? What has the COVID experiment taught us?
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With a virtual groundbreaking ceremony before Christmas, actual construction work began Tuesday, Jan. 5, on the Tom Lee Park project.
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Plans for the interactive sculpture were among several new riverfront developments, including Mud Island renovations, reviewed Tuesday, Feb. 9, by the Memphis River Parks Partnership board.
Opinion: Still crazy. Still right.
The fight continues to easily access our history, to stand on our oldest ground above our best view of the Mississippi, to make traffic Downtown make sense.