It's quiet in the center of Seinäjoki. Even if the Tango festival is about to end few blocks away, it doesn't show here on "Kalevankatu", "Kaleva-street", which is one of the main streets in the city center. Seinäjoki did this pedestrian-oriented renovation to this part of the street last summer and they will continue renovating the rest of it, I quess, next week.
The town is trying to make the center more alive. In finland it has been a trend in the last fifteen or twenty years to build large hypermarkets in the outskirts of the cities. That is eliminating the town centers.
When thinking of renovating the center, the pedestrian oriented thing is a good start. But if we want people to come into the center and walk on these pedestrian zones, there should be a lot of small shops, cafes and other stuff that would make it more alive. Now for example on this street, there are mostly banks and insurance companies.
When thinking of renovating the center, the pedestrian oriented thing is a good start. But if we want people to come into the center and walk on these pedestrian zones, there should be a lot of small shops, cafes and other stuff that would make it more alive. Now for example on this street, there are mostly banks and insurance companies.
Also at the same time the town is putting all the parking space under a parking fee. That's just strange if they would want the people to come to the center. Of course that is common in towns size of Seinäjoki. People are just so used to move around by car that they prefer going to the hypermarkets where they can park for free.
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