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Bloomberg's proposed congestion pricing plan would have ameliorated some of the traffic problems in the city but it never came to a vote in the assembly. BTW, removing the pedestrian plaza in Time Square is a stupid idea. Just issue permits for performers and ticket those who don't have it. Not to mention it's going to cost this city money to remove it. This is what when you don't improve a city's public transportation infrastructure. This city cannot rely solely on vehicular traffic with the city's population growing ever so fast. We need more trains and express buses but the state doesn't want to nor does it care.
This will hurt his vision zero plan. I thought he wanted to make the streets pedestrian friendly?
He's amending the plan to be called "Vision One." Apparently, topless women are more dangerous than cars & trucks.
And where are all these other areas for people to just go and hangout that people are talking about? Central Park? Yeah, that's nice at night - so much so that a civilian patrol has started to keep people safe. Union square? Yeah, why have two similar things within fifty blocks of each other? And just hope occupy Wall Street doesn't show up.
The city has entirely too many people, and the pedestrian plaza is somewhat of a necessary evil. Transportation in general should be improved - I'd love to see entire avenues shut down to traffic and have above line monorails with more things for people to do - though we can't even pay for subway countdown clocks bc of union pensions.
The problem is de blasio and the police. The police don't respect de blasio. Guilani wouldn't take any of that crap. Neither would bloomberg. There'd be civil rights violations like nobody's business. They'd be arresting elmo and topless woman like water if they started causing trouble.
the plaza and the attractions there are after all, intended for people to gather there.
People don't go to Times Square to hang out in red chairs and look at topless women. They go there to go in the many stores, take the traditional Times Square selfie, and grab some overpriced food from Bubba Gump and the like. Eliminating the plaza will not move the people elsewhere except on the narrow sidewalks. Come on....
Quite often, pedestrians DIDN'T walk on the crowded sidewalks before 2009. It's silly to think it would be safer with more traffic lanes.
This is true. And, even today, you see more than a few tourists walking INTO THE STREET to bypass others on the sidewalks taking pictures, etc. I don't want to see such activity increase if the plaza was removed.
So far this is the best move he has done as mayor, if it goes through. I seriously hope that the mayor can eliminate times square pedestrian Plaza. The pedestrian Plaza is a huge eye sore and it causes way too much traffic bottleneck in with cars passing through times square. Blasio gets my vote for his 2nd term if he gets rid of pedestrian Plaza in times Square.
There were bottlenecks before and there will always be bottlenecks down in that area. I don't see why pedestrian plazas should be eliminated when on the whole most people seem to enjoy them.
I think they should keep the plaza but remove the seats and tables. Do they REALLY need to sit in the middle of Times Square? Sit on the red stairs if you're that tired. Or one of the multiple restaurants in the area - go inside, take a seat and order a coffee. Same goes for the plaza in Herald Square. Do we really need chairs and tables in the middle of the street?
I can agree to that. I never liked the look of the chairs and tables anyway.
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