This chapter is about whether the National Park Service should build a bridge from Ellis Island to Liberty State Park in New Jersey. In 1994, the Public Space Research Group interview the public to see what they thought about the bridge proposal. They had 15 constituency groups in Battery Park that they used. Twelve of the groups were work/park related. In Liberty Park, they used twelve constituency groups and of those twelve, five were work/park related. They also spoke to focus groups, did spontaneous interviews, expert interviews, physical trace maps, and behavioral mapping. While doing the spontaneous interviews, they used Spanish, English, and Russian languages.
The most important observation they found out from interviewing people in Liberty Park, Battery Park, and the area surrounding Liberty Park was that the people were extremely interested in the issue and were very understanding of the problems and consequences of the issue regardless of ethic background. Some of the issues with building the bridge that were brought up were cost, access, park quality, aesthetics, safety and comfort, health and recreation, ect. There was a wide range of answers they got from people either for or against the bridge.
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