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

Re:Downside of Lower Manhattan’s Boom: It’s Too Crowded by solatic on Friday December 02, 2016 @03:21PM (#13091946)

Not at all. In Jerusalem, Yafo Street is now pedestrian and light-rail only. Even still, police vehicles routinely drive on Yafo Street, and coexist with the light rail by not parking on the tracks. When police vehicles have their sirens on, pedestrians get out of the way. Deliveries occur on side streets and alleyways.

The Jerusalem municipality closed literally the busiest street in Jerusalem to private vehicular traffic and the results could not be better. It turns out, "induced demand" isn't just an idea which explains why you get more traffic when you build more highway lanes, it can also explain how to get more foot traffic, too. So business is booming, and the area is vitalizing even more.

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Re:Downside of Lower Manhattan’s Boom: It’s Too Crowded by criddell on Friday December 02, 2016 @03:40PM (#13092097)

Manhattan has 4x the population density of Jerusalem (twice the population in half the space). On top of that, it's an island so alternate traffic routes sometimes don't exist.

Is only Yafo blocked? Blocking a street is one thing, but eliminating cars from Lower Manhattan is another.

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