Lenin Street should become a place for unhurried walks in Novosibirsk for a long time. After the first experience, residents, power and business in 2018 can jointly form its appearance, fulfilling the requirements for silence and security. Moreover, the city hall does not have to be a curator of the project, and sometimes the event only interferes. Taiga.info cites the opinions of social activists about the city experiment.

Konstantin Golodyaev, local historian, employee of the Novosibirsk Museum

( Facebook ):

The history of Lenin's pedestrian street does not end. They ask me what will happen, what I think about it? I'll try to concentrate my vision of the situation.

I just want our city to develop, so that it be comfortable for its inhabitants and attractive for tourists.

Among other things, this function would be performed by a pedestrian street - a street for unhurried walks. And not between the trees of the park, which is also fine. But among the sights of the city. Everyone, absolutely every house on the site of Kuznetskaya Street from Novobazarny Square to Mikhailovsky Log, is full of sights, both now existing and leaving more than a hundred years deep. Lent to read yourself, go on an excursion.

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As a supporter of civil society, I am most interested in ensuring that no rights are infringed. “The happiness of the whole world is not worth one tears on the cheek of an innocent child,” probably everyone heard. Although, maybe not everyone agrees. So let's talk, not scream. To object, offer. No need to lie, distort and come up.

In our power and in our common interests, making our city cleaner, better, more comfortable. And it turns out that one side does something, is mistaken, changes, and the other only sprinkles and gloating. Although, here I have already summarized. Not all. Being on Lenin almost every weekend, conducting excursions there or telling about the city, I see so many residents of the street that I know. And I see that they are happy to walk, and more than once. Many come to me, we are calmly talking, people like it.

So, nevertheless, do the street need affordable entrances to the yards, end parking, landscaping, stationary toilets, police post at the Universe, observing the hours of silence and much more? Or let everything remain as it was?

And, despite all the naivety, I will repeat: we will still be proud that we have such a pedestrian street.

Alexey Kunitsin, head of the movement "Hello, bicycle!" In Novosibirsk ( Facebook ):

What I think about the experiment of this year and what are my suggestions

1. What they decided to do in this format was not bad. I believed that the pedestrian for the weekend would not “take off”.

2. Approach. We must start with this. According to this year, it was done quickly, they sorted it out along the way. Now is the time to take stock and, having created a new organizational structure, prepare the next year in the winter. Given the project of KB Strelka and Tatyana Ivanenko - Lenina Street will be pedestrian in the future only at the weekend, since the carriageway remained in the project. So, we take pedestrian only on the weekend.

Initially, I believed that eventfulness is not what would make her pedestrian. Yes, events are needed. But there should be quiet "everyday life". When on the street you can just stay among people, chat. Do not be a spectator, a listener, but simply is. For this, you do not need music, interactives, and so on.

The creation of a pedestrian space is a point of intersection of interests, the process should go with the expanded composition of the organizers

1. Organization. I believe that the municipality should not be engaged in the extent that it is now as it is now. The question is too subtle, but no one has relevant competencies in the city. More precisely, like this: we can organize events in the city, and the Department of Culture does this brilliantly. But the creation of a pedestrian space is a completely different question, it is a point of intersection of the interests of residents of the whole city, local residents, business and authorities. Therefore, the organization of the process should be an expanded composition of the organizers. The share of the municipality needs to leave issues of interaction with the authorities, regulation of advertising, and so on.

We will call this organizing committee “The Club of Friends of Lenin Street” (the idea is not mine). Registered legal entity. Eight people should include the club: three from local residents, two from business, one from the municipality, two representatives of the public. This "club" should develop the concept of filling the pedestrian space for the weekend of 2018. Of course, the activities of such an organizing committee will have to be spent, as in some organizational points: clining, ceilings, and so on. Black businessmen - local business should form such a budget. I believe that it is quite possible for them.

It is this organizing committee that must form the requirements for the design, ensuring security, etc..

Benefits to local residents

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1. The emerging organizing committee can not only represent interests, it must set conditions. For example, if the municipality wants to continue to overlap the street for the weekend, then, you need to demand:
   - put the sidewalks in order
   - Make lighting
   - Urns
   - The protection of law and order

And not just to demand, but to offer specific solutions. Should the street be pedestrian? Then you need to do this and that.

1. You can come up with a lot of such benefits, not to mention the fact that at least discounts in public catering for Lenin. This will be the unique experience of a public association for the city. The real mechanism of influence.

The benefits of the municipality

1. Such a “club” will take over the majority of reputation risks in relation to citizens and the media.

2. Of course, such a club will more quickly solve all issues, because it will be “in the fields” and with the representative office of the inhabitants themselves. Residents themselves will be easier to negotiate with each other than with the municipality.

3. Savings of the city budget.

You can further discuss how to do it better. But it is better to do this not on social networks, where many of us are stating sensiblely, but in fact they can’t say anything. An initiative group was created, I am waiting for an invitation from Olga Kasatkina. We will work so that everyone won from the pedestrian street.

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