Goshen sidewalk crowding is the new cruising

May 19, 2012

Goshen sidewalk crowding is the new cruising

Anonymous The Goshen News Sat May 19, 2012, 08:00 AM EDT

I’m writing in response to the article in The Goshen News (May 16), entitled “Way Paved for Sidewalk Ordinance.” To recap quickly: The older people (business owners, the Establishment, “The Man”, the 1 percent) in Goshen don’t like the younger people crowding the sidewalk during First Fridays.

As you know this is just another sign of our deteriorating society, “au grace de,” which is likely French for “thanks to” the failed Obama administration, which has turned its back on sidewalk crowding issues altogether as evidenced by no mention of it in the “State of Union” message and no legislation on the federal level being introduced to address the issue.

This issue reminds me of those days when cars would cruise the main streets and clog up the roads. These kids in their cars would go up one side of the street and down the other… round and round. They were a nuisance. These drivers showed complete disrespect for elders. They were darn near hoodlums and something had to be done. So the “establishment” of the day got that nonsense stopped.

But time has a way of moving on while we are engaged elsewhere and “cruising” is now considered nostalgic and is celebrated on a special First Friday once a year as people now very gray haired or without hair, clog up the streets and celebrate the now banned practice under the watchful eye of the current “establishment.”

Someone needs to remind current “establishment” of the time they cruised the streets in Goshen and the then “establishment” was against them. Cruising was banned, just like crowed sidewalks might be now, and how now we celebrate cruising.

— David Arment

Millersburg

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