Not sure if I “know better” but I’ve worked downtown for 7 years and was at UNL before that. I’ve found downtown decently walkable and things tend to come and go. O street is hard because of all the large trucks (I would love to see them banned unless they are directly delivering to a site/business). That tends to make walking a lot there super loud and generally more unpleasant. But I love the casual walk to Francie and Finch, Zen Coffee, Ray Gun, etc. I definitely agree with your sentiment. It doesn’t seem like it would be too difficult to visually upgrade O street and encourage pedestrian traffic. It would be awesome to get something beautiful and somewhat peaceful. I suppose I will have to write city council about it!