They shuttle residents from a central parking area to their destination and back. They’re simply small vans like the ones used by car rental companies to drive tourists from and to the airport. They call them “micro buses”, or at least that’s what they call them in Spain, where I saw them for the first time. Small European cities have had similar dilemmas but they found a solution. That’s why the streets in Old San Juan are so narrow and the houses have no garages. Back in the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th centuries people got around on foot, on horseback or on horse drawn carriages. In fact, it wasn’t built for gas vehicles at all. Simply put, Old San Juan wasn’t built for large vehicles. And who’ll pick up the tab? Probably you and I. Needless to say, he made a fool of himself, messed up the bus and destroyed a great amount of government property. The other day an idiot tried to drive a full-sized school bus down “Calle Del Sol” and “Caleta De Las Monjas”. Micro Buses, the only viable way to get around Old San JuanĮlectric Microbus Used In Madrid, Spain. The building would need to be attractive enough to sit in front of the tourism peers, although lately government has been doing everything in its power to scare off every imaginable cruise ship company (but that’s a story for another day). So step one would be moving the Treasury Department somewhere else, demolishing the building and erecting a parking structure large enough to accommodate all the cars belonging to Old San Juan residents and tourists. The only reason why “Hacienda” is in Old San Juan is because that’s where it was when most of Puerto Rico’s commercial shipping and wholesaling operations took place in Old San Juan. Why? In my view a Treasury Department is nothing but a giant accounting office, so it could work just as well in Hato Rey (where there are plenty of underutilized buildings), at Metro Office Park or anywhere else -for that matter- where there’s adequate space, power and data facilities.
Puerto Rico’s Treasury Department is located across the street from Pier 4 in Old San Juan. “Departamento De Hacienda”, a building in the wrong place And if your ideas are better we’ll use them. Let’s discuss them and repave Old San Juan. We’re destroying Old San Juan!!! So if you don’t like my ideas, “NO PROBLEMO”. And believe me, THEY WORK!!! Some people might consider them hair brain. I’ve seen them all before in Europe and in the United States. The ideas that I’m about to propose in this article aren’t new. And what they’ve found is that solving it is a matter of leaving childish attitudes behind and creating the infrastructure to make things happen. This kind of problem has plagued small cities in Europe for decades. There are better ways to deal with these problems and most of them aren’t new.
To avoid these perils many of them end up paying for parking at one of several private garages. Most of the time they end up parking far from home and exposing their vehicles to potential hazards. However, being able to do something and actually getting to do it are two different things.
Finding a parking spot in Old San Juan is murder, you can’t bring your car with you into restaurants and museums, so why drive at all? Why not walk? It’s sheer idiocy if you ask me, but it happens day in and day out. Somehow, in some twisted way, Puerto Ricans picked up the notion that its fun to sit in a car -sometimes for hours at a time- drive over potholes in the blistering tropical sun, and pollute everything around them. It’s a cosmopolitan city like no other in America.īut vehicular traffic is killing Old San Juan. It’s also full of restaurants, bars and small hotels. It’s like Disneyland but without the animatronics. The architecture, the streets and the old forts, the churches all transport you to the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Visiting Old San Juan is like stepping back in history. Oh, and did I mention that it’s beautiful? It’s also the oldest continuously operating city in the United States and parts of it are recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Old San Juan is the oldest city in Puerto Rico and the second oldest in the Western Hemisphere. Not in cheap concrete bricks but in its original blue slag pavers. I’ve been visiting Old San Juan since the early 70’s… and I’d like to see it repaved. Think of me as a guy with a camera, a computer and the Internet.
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