Comments on: New York City 2030. London Today. http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/01/29/new-york-city-2030-london-today/ Covering the New York City Streets Renaissance Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:40:59 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Roxanne Warren http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/01/29/new-york-city-2030-london-today/comment-page-1/#comment-27863 Roxanne Warren Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:34:01 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/01/29/new-york-city-2030-london-today/#comment-27863 The Mayor, and particularly the current DOT leadership, fail to understand that, while we have the most walkable and transit riding city in the US, their favoritism toward the automobile is making the life of pedestrians and transit riders increasingly unpleasant and dangerous. Congestion pricing is the obvious solution to the fact that more and more motorists are forcing their way into our limited streetspace. The Mayor is 'way off mark to equate auto congestion with prosperity. Peole do not shop from their cars in Manhattan. We are not a drive-in shopping mall. See the vision42 proposal at www.vision42.org. The Mayor, and particularly the current DOT leadership, fail to understand that, while we have the most walkable and transit riding city in the US, their favoritism toward the automobile is making the life of pedestrians and transit riders increasingly unpleasant and dangerous. Congestion pricing is the obvious solution to the fact that more and more motorists are forcing their way into our limited streetspace. The Mayor is 'way off mark to equate auto congestion with prosperity. Peole do not shop from their cars in Manhattan. We are not a drive-in shopping mall. See the vision42 proposal at http://www.vision42.org.

]]> By: jk http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/01/29/new-york-city-2030-london-today/comment-page-1/#comment-27694 jk Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:25:47 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/01/29/new-york-city-2030-london-today/#comment-27694 You wrote that Bloomberg et al "Keep the traffic moving." The really sorry thing is they don't. Despite all that tweaking and tuning of traffic signals, new turning bays, optimized (for motor vehicles) bridge and tunnel access ramps --- and all that sacrifice of neighborhoods and degredation of the walking city --- traffic is only getting worse. You wrote that Bloomberg et al "Keep the traffic moving." The really sorry thing is they don't.

Despite all that tweaking and tuning of traffic signals, new turning bays, optimized (for motor vehicles) bridge and tunnel access ramps --- and all that sacrifice of neighborhoods and degredation of the walking city --- traffic is only getting worse.

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