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Of course.
It's about eliminating independence. (Slightly) safer streets are a side effect. Until that ambulance or fire truck you were waiting on gets stuck in traffic because there isn't any space, not even for people to pull over.
I've noticed ever since vision zero was introduced traffic lights have been completely out of sync. Red, Green, Red, etc. especially in major thoroughfares in the outer boroughs (think Ocean Parkway.) Anyone else noticed this?
I've noticed ever since vision zero was introduced traffic lights have been completely out of sync. Red, Green, Red, etc. especially in major thoroughfares in the outer boroughs (think Ocean Parkway.) Anyone else noticed this?
The DOT has been adding random traffic lights where there's longs stretchs on major streets with no intersections that are completely out of sync with the other lights. This causes traffic to barely move during rush hour. There's a few on Queens Blvd that turn the street into a giant polluted parking lot.
The DOT has been adding random traffic lights where there's longs stretchs on major streets with no intersections that are completely out of sync with the other lights. This causes traffic to barely move during rush hour. There's a few on Queens Blvd that turn the street into a giant polluted parking lot.
I've seen that on Steinway st in Astoria actually, forgot to mention.. probably the worst example I've seen yet.
But it's not sold to the public as "Create Gridlock"... It's sold as "Let's make the streets safer for bikes and pedestrians by slowing evil cars down."
The DOT has been adding random traffic lights where there's longs stretchs on major streets with no intersections that are completely out of sync with the other lights. This causes traffic to barely move during rush hour. There's a few on Queens Blvd that turn the street into a giant polluted parking lot.
T.Here is the intersection of 6 1/2 Avenue and 57th Street whose sole function seems to be to bolix up traffic flow on 57th Street.
Another wonder of traffic engineering, the block on 43rd Street heading from Third Avenue towards Lexington Avenue and Grand Central:
Note the beautiful planters restricting traffic to one lane in the busiest part of NYC.
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