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Sunday, May 24, 2009

Pedestrianize Broadway! (Redux)

Back in 2005, I put up a blog entry entitled "Pedestrianize Broadway!" in which I waxed rhapsodic about Broadway being made a pedestrian thoroughfare at least from Columbus Circle down to Union Square.

Now it seems there's a non-zero chance that my dream will come true and that the current plan to close off small chunks of the Great White Way is only the beginning:

If the Broadway plan does succeed, the next step (though Sadik-Khan is not talking this way publicly) will likely be to close more sections of Broadway until one day in the near future the entire boulevard has been converted to pedestrianized open space. It’s hard to characterize how dramatic a change that would be. Imagine a Manhattan with two major parks: one built in the nineteenth century as a confined space of bucolic wonder; the other refashioned in the 21st century as a long, open boulevard slicing the island on the diagonal. This would be the most striking alteration of the city’s physical landscape since the days of Robert Moses.

Oh, to see it happen!

Update: This is what it looks like, now, when there's a street fair on Seventh Avenue:

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Posted by Felix at 0:00 EST

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I've been telling people for a couple months that we could tear out most or all of the odd numbered streets without a long-term negative effect on traffic and with a positive overall effect on general citizen well-being. This is my current "craziest thing I believe".

Posted by: dWj at 20:58 EST, May 24, 2009

Between the future of Broadway and the new Mid-Block Park, it looks like we're going to get two "long open boulevard"-parks in lower Manhattan. Maybe three or four, if you count the Highline or the Hudson Greenway.

Posted by: rufustfyrfly at 8:30 EST, May 26, 2009

The next step is to set aside a few major streets for pedestrians, plus one lane each way for bicycles and electric vehicles no larger than golf carts. This would keep the health effects of keeping out polluting vehicles.

Posted by: traderjohn at 19:07 EST, May 26, 2009

Absolutely an excellent initiative.

This needs to go much further, however, as part of a concerted effort to gradually reduce automobile traffic in cities, and enhance and encourage pedestrian access and public transit. We might start with implemented a (once rejected by Albany) congestion plan, increasing fuel taxation, increasing taxes and fees for ownership of private automobiles, increasing tolls on bridges, tunnels, and highways, and subsidizing public transit development, including reasonably priced and efficient light rail in every city in the nation.

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