But. They can drive the trucks with the customers away at any moment.

Yeh, but why is the sidewalk small in the first place? (Not attacking you, but you know what I mean)

Yup. They blocked off 2 blocks in a very pedestrian popular area downtown near me, people love it. Restaurants expanded into the street a little, live music, etc. really made it very nice

Eh its hardly a one size fits all case. These companies employ and pay community taxes as well as a host of others. If it is feasible they should be allowed to do this. Get rid of the parking after 5pm and put out seating. Sidewalk is free and there is extra space.

Tbh I love when restaurants have huge outside patio, courtyard spaces.

In some places here in Sweden, restaurants with sidewalk tables have an extra "lane" for pedestrians installed in parallel over the side of the street, like a protected boardwalk

We can get rid of the parking spots and put the side walks there while ahopa can use the space outside their shop for whatever they see fit. It's good for communities to have people out and doing things, not just shoved away inside somewhere.

Extra free floor space. Or do those cafes and restaurants pay some sort of permit fee?

Because I hate pedestrian bottlenecks caused by cafe tables on the footpath. Even worse when groups of tourists stop walking right there to stare at the menu and discuss whether to have lunch there or somewhere else. Move aside, please. Not all of us are on holidays.

Not Brazilian. But as someone who has had the privilege to travel around in the past, the US was the only country I visited that had these super strict Puritan Alcohol laws.

I'm Brazilian, and I'll say I have no idea what a "take away"alcohol purchase means. Here you can open the can inside the market, drink it as you purchase as long as you pay it on the way out. Never heard of any laws against drinking in public, only about selling alcohol to minors and drunk driving

Brazilian here.

It's legal to sell alcohol as takeway and its legal to drink outside of public restaurant premises.

From the top of my head the only place that isnt allowed to sell alcohol is in football stadiums in some states. Some can still sell it but only in plastic cups.

I don't really see a problem (aside from some drunk person falling off the platform while trying to go to the bathroom) in this solution. This could very well be in place as a permanent solution to this pub.

older folks to get arround without obstacles Bro has not seen a Brazilian sidewalk, there are light posts in the middle of it, and the owners of the buildings are responsible for maintaining it, so every 10 meters there is a giant step and some rough terrain. Brazil has horrible urban planning and walkability, the city hall decision just sounds like carbrain to me. "The sidewalk is small so we will push people indoors" Why is the sidewalk small in the first place?

Or you could turn that parking spot on a nice service area. As it is done in many countries now. We need to stop giving that much space to cars and trucks

You gotta ban parking if you want to remove cars. The malicious compliance wouldn't have worked if that's the case

If there is one thing that can be said about Brazilians is their absolute creativity when it comes to going around an inconvenience. It's the famous "jeitinho".

Or you just make the street for humans, and with that have enough space for sidewalk patio tables and people to walk and cycle through

I'm pretty sure car-centric culture is what made it so this had to be a solution in the first place.

It's because if you have a car you have free real state.

From car-centric, anti-human laws