That’s pretty much how it works in the Italian cities where I have lived. Especially in covid, a lot of parking got converted.
This seems to be specifically about the maze of narrow streets in the centre of Firenze and there really isn’t any room for eating there. And, tbh, when was there 2ish months ago, there was mostly the 1 or 2 bar stools outside a few places, so this seems to be all headline and no story.
Here, in a drunk tourist district residents always complain about the noise of the drunk tourists leaving the bars at night. Local government doesn’t want to limit bars too much, because they pay a lot of taxes, but the residents elect the government. So similar back and forth going on, before election they make it a bit more strict for the pubs, but later slowly everything goes back to the previous situation.
That’s pretty much how it works in the Italian cities where I have lived. Especially in covid, a lot of parking got converted.
This seems to be specifically about the maze of narrow streets in the centre of Firenze and there really isn’t any room for eating there. And, tbh, when was there 2ish months ago, there was mostly the 1 or 2 bar stools outside a few places, so this seems to be all headline and no story.
When will be the next elections there?
Here, in a drunk tourist district residents always complain about the noise of the drunk tourists leaving the bars at night. Local government doesn’t want to limit bars too much, because they pay a lot of taxes, but the residents elect the government. So similar back and forth going on, before election they make it a bit more strict for the pubs, but later slowly everything goes back to the previous situation.