That should greatly reduce the burden on the other arteries in my body.
Regards,
Get out yer bicycle kids !
Oh ! There’s three feet of snow ?
Get snow tires !
Bwa ha ha
If our grandparents had the attitudes of the public officials today, we’d still be riding a horse and buggy. These people don’t increase transportation infrastructure, and then whine whine whine whine when traffic backs up.
How many lanes have they added in the last twenty years?
How much true traffic planning have they done inside the city?
Look folks, I know we’ve grown as a society, and that demands improvements in infrastructure. It’s just that they steal funds from the highways and bridges and parking facilities, and apply it to trains and buses.
I don’t want to get on a train or bus and mingle with people. I’ve done that in the past, and when you do it, you’re subjecting yourself to problems.
It only takes one problem, to ruin not only your day, but weeks, months, years, perhaps your life.
If our city managers would give up the idea of being “the People’s” managers, as in the Communist Party, and start thinking outside the box, a lot could improve.
This idea of cutting lanes is imbecilic.
They are cutting up to one third the lanes to improve traffic flow. Consider how ignorant you have to be, to think that is a solution.
It’s raining outside. Today’s forecast predicts between 1-3 inches of rain. Okay, hop on your bike boys.
It’s snowing. There’s three inches on the ground, but if you take it easy you can get to work in your car. Nope, drag out that bike. Are you afraid of a little exercise?
Hey, it’s -5 degrees today. There’s two inches of fresh snow? How about a nice four mile walk? How about riding that bike?
Come on. I know you think we just did this to make traffic flow faster, but in truth, it’s the global warming we’re concerned with. We’re going to hit our targets if it kills you. We have limos. All is well...
Fewer cars mean less wear and tear on the roadway with faster average speed and less congestion. The paradox of road construction is that the more roads you build, the more congested they get as people drive more. The new approach emphasizes other means of travel and tries to reduce car use and ownership in major urban areas.
DeBlasios plan for increased homeless population : less housing
Plan for long wait to have surgery : close more. hospitals.
Bunch of studies done that this actually makes traffic worse and more dangerous, which seems like common sense but common sense is largely lacking in progressives.
If NYC wanted to be efficient and modern, it would make sense to have a significant number of park and ride facilities ringing the city. These would have to be bright, well-patrolled, clean, safe, parking areas (including new multi-level garages) with a well-oiled mechanism for transferring drivers to trains/subway lines to go from the parking areas to anywhere in Manhattan or the buroughs.
Many years ago a very corrupt Salt Lake City mayor named Didi Corradini publicly told people to not bring their cars to the city when all this road construction was going on for the Olympics. We responded by not going at all. After all these years the downtown area never fully recovered. Lol. Those idiots made it hard to get downtown so business moved south. The fool thought all the businesses would come back begging for space. Morons.
Keep money for cars, spend it on something else.
Simple.
And don’t plan ahead.
There is that slinky effect from automatic transmissions.
Many major cities are doing similar type things, eliminating traffic lanes, offramp lanes, and adding bike lanes, etc. Their idea is to force people out of cars and into mass transit through sheer frustration. In NYC it is already the case, but other cities are approving mixed use construction where the bottom floors are commercial and upper floors residential/commercial - in essence keep people sort of trapped into their neighborhoods or reliant on mass transit.
The thing that gets me, particularly about NYC Manhattan, is that it is nearly 100% dependent on importing goods, produce, foods etc. I get out there once in a while and the numbers of commercial vehicles is extraordinary. Just imagine how many trucks each hotel receives every day - they haul away dirty sheets and towels, restock fresh linen, and replenish their kitchens and minibars and restaurants on a daily basis. That’s just hotels. Add in all the other commercial enterprises, and the residents’ own needs. The entire city of 8 million residents is almost 100% dependent on services provided from outside the city. And now they want to make it more difficult and more expensive to service their needs.
Turn it all into a bicycle lane.
Forcing voters by Social Engineering is always a winning strategy. /LOL
De Blasio’s supporters do not use the BQE. He could shut down the Plaza Hotel and it wouldn’t effect them either.
ML/NJ