Chalk up another vote for the side of the debate that cannot fathom why anybody would want to sit and choke exhaust, talk over traffic noise, and wonder when a driver who is too busy texting to pay attention to the road is going to run into me. There are some ideas from SF that don't need to be imported.

We need all the parking spots available. The T will be overwhelmed in a few years according to the latest study.

"Any added common outdoor space is a great thing,'' said Ashley Miller, 28, a Jamaica Plain resident who works nearby and who would not mourn lost parking spaces. "[If] you live in a city, you have to sacrifice your car sometimes.'' I wonder if you live in the suburbs if you have to sacrifice your car sometimes when you come into the city? It's getting increasingly more difficult to raise a family in the city and taking away the limited parking we have is just another choice for forcing families out of the city. Perhaps we residents should not be the ones to make sacrifices. Maybe the people bringing their vehicles into the city should have to sacrifice.

Hey- read the studies people - the more walkable the area, the more valuable - if you value cars so much, to a strip mall

Mmmm... lunch and car fumes... or bike messengers speeding by kicking up dirt and rocks. Why would you put seating on the street? Common sense seems to suggest that you would put it on the sidewalk closest to the building and maybe extend the sidewalk. Cars are not going to vanish because you put lawn furniture in traffic.

More anti-car stupidity. I will be sure to make list of participating restaurants, so that I can avoid them. If I can't find a parking place, I can't very well give them my business. The streets in Boston (and here in Cambridge as well) need to be shared equally by drivers, bikers and jaywalkers.

The only reason to have parking in front of a business is to bring customers to the shop. We can agree on that. But if the businesses can generate more business without the parking spaces, without the smog, the heat, the noise, the danger, the traffic - then their wishes should be respected. Cities work best when filled with people and businesses that don't need outside customers coming in with cars. Cities work best when the people who live in the city don't even own cars. They don't have to. Think human scale. There are many other options available. Make your blacklist of restaurants and stick to it. Go eat dinner out at Ken's Steak House in Framingham. Maybe you'll see Michael Graham. They have a huge big-box-store style parking lot where you will have plenty of room to drive your SUV around and around in circles before you finally settle on your perfect spot. Follow your bliss man.

Reading this article kept making me check to see if it was April Fools' Day. What a simply asinine idea! It makes me want to boycott my taxes to think that one cent of them goes to such stupid wastes of time.

Reading this article kept making me check to see if it was April Fools' Day. What a simply asinine idea! It makes me want to boycott my taxes to think that one cent of them goes to such stupid wastes of time.