Entertainment zones. San Francisco has a new one as does Long Beach now. Infamously Bourbon Street in New Orleans is an example of one as well. Areas where you can have a drink outside.
Since this is a beer blog, you might expect that I would be pro entertainment zone. (By the way, worst and least helpful name that I have seen in a while.) But, I do not like them.
The main reason is it’s a garbage issue to me. Not the people, thought that can happen. Bars have to serve their alcoholic beverages in plastic cups and not re-usable glassware. And where do those cups go? Mostly on the ground because Americans simply cannot be bothered to walk an extra few feet to a trash can. And even if that cup does make it to a proper spot, what are the chances it gets recycled?
Also, it encourages bar hopping and now you get the possibility of drunken people ambling about like they are in 28 Years Later. And eventually those zombies find their way to a street with moving vehicles on it.
I do think that at least these cities in California are at least trying but more effort, especially now, needs to be focused on getting the T.A.C.O. to stop his tourist witch hunt so that people will visit.