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[auntiemeesh]

I've been back in Pgh for a couple of days now, with lots of running around through the neighborhoods yesterday. I've only been gone a year so there haven't been that many changes, but the one thing that I noticed surprised the heck out of me. In a strange reversal of expectations, a parking lot has been removed to make way for a park.

ani_no_mouse, I'm sure you remember the parking lot that was between Hillman Library and the Carnegie Museum. Well, it is now a beautiful, grassy park with several seating areas grouped around flowerbeds, a large lawn, and several food kiosks - I believe these are just more permanent structures for the food vans and carts that were always parked in front of the library, although I could be wrong.

I don't know where the people who used that parking lot are parking now, but it really is a lovely change.

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[wishkey.livejournal.com]

OOh. One day let's go there.

[ani-no-mouse.livejournal.com]

Wow! I bet that is really nice! It's funny how towns keep changing. A few years after I moved to Pittsburgh, they made that into an enlarged parking lot from what had been a more park-like lot. Changing it back into a real park sounds great. Oakland needs more green space. Perhaps Pitt has been somewhat successful at getting folks to take public transportation to work/school? One thing that I've really missed about UT since moving to Ole Miss, is UT's commitment to making the campus car-free. As a result, walking around the UT campus was much less stressful and dangerous than walking around the Ole Miss campus tends to be.

[lil-banik-slave.livejournal.com]

In a strange reversal of expectations, a parking lot has been removed to make way for a park.

You know when I was an ickle Banik, I use to think it strange that Car Parks were so called, because there were no swings or roundabouts so how could they be parks. And we weren't allowed to run around in them, we had to hold Mum or Dad's hand and walk everywhere, so how could it POSSIBLY be a park.

[whtmtnwmn.livejournal.com]

So they unpaved for paradise and took out the parking lot?

I didn't think that could happen in this society.

Yay for your newfound little corner of paradise!
=D

[ani-no-mouse.livejournal.com]

One more reason to hang out around Hillman, as if the proximity of Tom T (or the perhaps more relevant-for-you fact that you are going to be a library science student!) weren't enough.

Be sure to patronize the Thai Food truck if it's still there - best pad thai in town!