I was against Short Street being closed because it runs directly to both the old courthouse, which will be a museum, and the new courthouse complex. But this is worth a try even if the additional five-o'clock traffic it generates will be trying. When the triangular space was a gravel-topped parking lot before it became a park, I wonder whether more people didn't have occasion to use it, if only to walk across. After it became a park, it was basically some green space, water falling down rocks and a wall on one side. Its attraction has been limited.
Some people compare it to a median.
Tourists who see it from hotel windows might check it out. Everybody might go there for some special event. And yet it's a park that people in Lexington think of going around instead of through. The error was slight, but the mistake was laughable. When you're on the wrong road, find another direction.