(2007-01-30) Manhattan Street Traffic Future

Robert Sullivan wrote an op-ed claiming that NYC is getting worse in letting pedestrians get frozen-out by increasing AutoMobile Street Traffic. Streets Blog copied his piece and added lots of links.

One link is to an earlier post of theirs summarizing a study: By highlighting Bruce Schaller's findings that "more than half the drivers who crowd into Manhattan each workday come from the five boroughs" and "35 percent of government workers drive to work" thanks to Free Parking (Government Parking), the story makes it clear that New York City's traffic congestion problem is, largely, the city's problem - not the state's, not the surrounding Suburbs'. Today's story puts the responsibility to fix this problem squarely in the lap of the Mayor Of Nyc.