Downside of Lower Manhattan’s Boom: It’s Too Crowded

Re:Downside of Lower Manhattan’s Boom: It’s Too Crowded by jccalhoun on Friday December 02, 2016 @12:54PM (#13090737)

>So make the sidewalks wider. I can think of nowhere in the US more appropriate to allocate more space to sidewalks than Manhattan.

I wonder how much that would solve and how much it would make worse? I think that I've heard that adding more lanes to roads can make congestion worse because more people use the roads. I wonder if the same would be true for pedestrian walkways?

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Re:Downside of Lower Manhattan’s Boom: It’s Too Crowded by kbenson on Friday December 02, 2016 @05:20PM (#13092849)

Even if you accept that as entirely true, that likely means more people walking instead of using cars, and since cars use far more static and dynamic space (negotiating obstacles/other cars), eliminating even one lane and filling it with walking traffic would likely be a very large net win.

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