Why is there more traffic on Wadsworth Blvd than 5th Ave NYC? (Boulder: job market, school)

[BarryK123]

Update - Went food shopping this morning. Wads was relatively quiet this morning, as one would expect now.

[otowi]

The subway is still packed - https://710wor.iheart.com/content/2020-03-26-while-new-york-corona-cases-surge-the-subway-is-still-packed1/?fbclid=IwAR3cpeUeAgfuyaPA8mrDx1Kmoe8bj72hIiqr8zf1 0XdP9z5KjdeBbie2oPs#.Xn_a3K55YxR.facebook

[BarryK123]

That's unbelievable. First, that people would do that. Second, that the mayor would let it happen.

If you saw Birx's presentation today, she showed a graph with the curves of all 50 states. NY and NJ were so far above the others, and this explains why.

[davebarnes]

Originally Posted by BarryK123

That's unbelievable. First, that people would do that. Second, that the mayor would let it happen.

They have no alternative transportation to get to work.

[BarryK123]

Originally Posted by davebarnes

They have no alternative transportation to get to work.

There shouldn't be that many people working now.

[Westerner92]

Originally Posted by BarryK123

There shouldn't be that many people working now.

I imagine most of them are either essential staff like maintenance or have bosses that self-designated themselves as “essential”. NYC is so dense, I imagine that even if 90% of people could stay home, you’d still get cars that packed on some lines in Manhattan in the mornings.

[Sweet Pain]

Originally Posted by pikabike

Actually, I have driven there. Not recently.

I would bet that a higher percentage of city dwellers there do not own cars. Or perhaps a better measurement would be percentage of those who work in the city commuting by car (any single-passenger car) vs commuting by foot, bike, bus, train, ferry.

You are correct. Sure we have a lot of cars, but we also have a lot more people.

[Sweet Pain]

Originally Posted by otowi

The subway is still packed - https://710wor.iheart.com/content/2020-03-26-while-new-york-corona-cases-surge-the-subway-is-still-packed1/?fbclid=IwAR3cpeUeAgfuyaPA8mrDx1Kmoe8bj72hIiqr8zf1 0XdP9z5KjdeBbie2oPs#.Xn_a3K55YxR.facebook

The subway is packed because they're running fewer trains and there are less cars on the train. By doing this, the city is forcing those who have to use public transportation to crowd against each other.

[TigerLily24]

Originally Posted by BarryK123

Guess you've never driven in NYC. A TON of traffic. A lot of taxis and delivery trucks, but lots of personal cars, too.

Most of which is business and commuter traffic.
People not going to work don’t need taxis. Closed businesses don’t need deliveries.

Many of the people who would regularly drive personal vehicles in Manhattan don’t live in Manhattan. They may normally work in Manhattan but they live in the outer boroughs, Long Island, NJ, CT...
With so many businesses shut down and/or people working from home, of course there would be less traffic on 5th Avenue.

People are much more car-centric here than they are in Manhattan during normal times. How many people walk to supermarkets or work here? How many take public transportation compared to in NYC?


Doesn’t surprise me at all that there’s (now) more traffic here than there.

[daprara]

i am sure if the level of coronavirus infection in Denver was like NYC the government(s) would attempt to limit traffic.
i am not saying anything about the quality of NYC but its just the numbers.