I haven't spent a ton of time in New York, don't know how bad things get. So grain of salt here. But I really dislike enclosing spaces. So much modern policy i

I haven't spent a ton of time in New York, don't know how bad things get. So grain of salt here. But I really dislike enclosing spaces. So much modern policy is about adding constraints, safety safety safety, and it all feels bad to me. As a bicyclist, I liked sharing the street more than I like being in a narrow dedicated bike lane, because the street was open & I could see clearly & now I'm between parked cars (with some pedestrians loading/unloading) and a sidewalk with pedestrians who sometimes go onto the path. Intersections are much harder to feel safe on, because now there are separate flows of traffic that re-encounter each other & have to figure stuff out. I just feel trapped and corralled. I loved being out and about. We're talking about adding huge fences to some of our bridges for suicide prevention. Beautiful spaces with gorgeous overlook. I feel a profound sense of loss that again we are corraling ourselves in, tightening one of the few open spaces around us. It's a bit daunting to me reimagining the subway, imagining it being a much more closed in confined system. The subway is such an interesting mix of busy platform and space, a juxtaposition, and it feels like we'd be losing that. We'd be losing openness and space. Losing sign of the trains themselves again doesn't seem like it matters deeply, is crucial, but it still makes me profoundly sad to imagine. More like an elevator than a train, solely an interior space, man elevating beyond the built environment into an abstracter form of infrastructure they cannot even see. I recognize good motives for all these things, recognize the cause. But I don't feel like there's recognition back, I don't feel like anyone else is out there advocating for open, for space. Civilization accrues, taking bits and pieces of the public space with it as the stuff builds up and the space gets retooled; that seems to be the direction of things. I feel so alone in caring for & loving openness, want so badly to see some weight given against walling ourselves in. Downvoted already, yeah thanks.