Atrocity of the Month

Park Parking Lot, Meadowlands

The epitome of car dependent sprawl is when a 'local' children's playground requires a parking lot.

By Trey Shaughnessy
Published October 21, 2005

Park Parking Lot, Meadowlands
Park Parking Lot, Meadowlands

The epitome of car dependent sprawl is when a 'local' children's playground requires a parking lot.

You are looking at the Meadowlands Park Parking Lot. Notice the houses that back onto the park. I assume a selling feature was its proximity to the park (or was it the proximity to the parking lot that the buyers liked?).

Either way, I'm sure the children have plenty of fun at this park like any other - after they are driven there. The parents are also able to watch their children have fun from the car while they drink their drive-thru coffee.

Trey lives in Williamsville NY via Hamilton. He is a Marketing Manager for Tourism and Destination Marketing in the Buffalo-Niagara Metro.

His essays have appeared in The Energy Bulletin, Post Carbon Institute, Peak Oil Survival, and Tree Hugger.

And can't wait for the day he stops hearing "on facebook".

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