In reply to Kyle Werremeyer.

What I am proposing is to strategically identify streets in existing walkable neighborhoods and closing down one (or two or three) blocks down to traffic and using that space as a park, or some other non-motorized vehicle space.

The devil will always be in the detail, and this is not a "one-size fits all" plan. It's something that can be replicated in small doses. For example; in Minneapolis and St. Paul, we could easily find one street in each neighborhood that could successfully do this.

What we need to do is look at streets in an entirely different way. It doesn't have to be this model of turning a street into a park, it can be a number of things. The link shared above on the North Minneapolis Greenway project gives a few of these options: