[Brian Griffin]

In my college years decades ago I found I could walk the distance between Penn Station and Grand Central in about the same time as it took a taxi to drive the distance.

[guest7]

"'Ultimately, it is passengers – not drivers – who make the choice to add to vehicle congestion despite readily accessible public transportation to and within the Central Business District,' the Board said in their proposal."

"In my college years decades ago I found I could walk the distance between Penn Station and Grand Central in about the same time as it took a taxi to drive the distance."

How many of these "passengers", or "pedestrians", would be alive today; if they had to take "readily accessible public transportation"?