I still shake my head when I consider that cars are allowed to speed away (what car have you ever seen rolling along at the 25 mph speed limit?) on the park drives only a few feet away from runners, cyclists and baby strollers during the busiest times for park use. In all my letters to electeds, I always invite them to walk along the pedestrian part of the park drive during rush hour.

It’s beyond harrowing, not to mention the exhaust and the ancillary traffic issues discussed here. I live in Harlem, and with one in four kids suffering from asthma, we could use less commuting traffic in our neighborhood. This is a proven consequence of road closures.

C’mon Mayor Mike, put your money where your mouth is!

when it is open to cars, the park drive acts like a long syringe that effectively injects traffic directly into midtown.

The entry to the park at 110th street (the top of the syringe) acts as a traffic magnent, pulling in drivers who would otherwise use the west side hwy and FDR.

T.A. interviewed midtown and downtown bound drivers on the loop drive and found that most of them were coming from points far north of Harlem. clearly these drivers would stick to outlying arterials and avoid harlem if the drive were closed.

He’s got the power.

He can speak directly to the people of this city — seriously engage the people of this city — and provide the leadership to dramatically show how move forward; and, maybe how this country can move forward. Car-free Central Park will be a first baby step. It has to be taken.

Who would have thought we’d see the day?

“closing Central Park’s Loop Drives to private vehicles would help reduce the amount of through-traffic using Harlem’s congested streets as a short-cut to and from Lower Manhattan.”

Can someone please explain what it’s talking about?

If you can do this then the only limiting factor is the speed any number of vehicles have to drive at to maintain flow. If you have unrestricted exit from all major intersections you will never get traffic tailbacks on to a Freeway reducing the lanes as a consequence of the intersections inability to cope with the flow.

The problem with the traffic is that we all want to get to where we want to go, and we want every traffic light and intersection we approach to give us a clear run so we don’t have to stop at a single intersection.
Not possible you say?
Well you would be wrong!
The simple solution to traffic jams and congestion is to design a road system that lets you do this.
Well we have that solution.
This allows all vehicles that approach any intersection on or to an arterial road to enter the intersection and exit it without stopping. All day, every day, in the worst peak hour traffic and save up to 40% on fuel costs and pollution emissions.
And what’s more we can build them within the confines of existing streets.
At http://www.ubtsc.com.au are models that allow everyone approaching an intersection to do exactly that!

Leave the open green spaces for the pedestrian and the cyclist.

People mentioned in this article are invited to visit and prove for themselves that we can design a city traffic infrastructure that eradicates congestion, jams, and gridlock.

In the response and reply to our initial communication addressed to USA, Secretary of Transportation, Dr Mary E. Peters the US Department of Transport states that Liquid Flow Traffic Management addresses “a number of successful practices for addressing traffic congestion related to the infrastructure”.

Problems with public transport?
Under the section Matter Propulsion there is a Public Transport System that is Zero polluting.
This is the future!

Jozef Goj CEO UBTSC Pty Ltd

Now is the perfect time to declare Central Park auto-free, for the sake of the paint!

The needs of thousands of park users who can’t afford summer shares or rentals in the Hamptons should outweigh the few who use the park as a short cut during morning and evening rush hours.

The city opens dozens of “cooling centers” when the mercury hits the upper reaches of thermometers, but in reality we have two great cooling centers already in place: Central and Prospect Parks.

Drop in Jersey barriers that convert the outer lanes to pedestrian traffic.