Boston considers more traffic...
Downtown Crossing's problems have been well-documented: Crime has spawned fear, heightened by a stabbing and shooting in the midst of a bustling afternoon. Shops that once thrived next to Jordan Marsh and Filene's have shuttered, leaving empty storefronts cheek-by-jowl with pushcarts, discount jewelry stalls, and gaping construction sites. Sidewalks that teem with rowdy teenagers and office workers by day lie empty and forbidding at night.
For years, city planners have been promising to restore the area to its former grandeur and make it a major urban destination. But as they have attempted solution after solution without success, they have never tried one idea: reopening the streets to traffic.
[From Should Downtown Crossing be reopened to traffic? - The Boston Globe]
(And what about those rowdy office workers?)
...while New York thinks less...
NEW YORK, Feb 26 (Reuters) - New York City plans to ban all vehicles from two notoriously congested stretches of Broadway, the wide avenue that cuts diagonally through the city's otherwise orderly grid, in a bid to ease traffic in the busy Times Square area....
The pilot starting in May would create two pedestrian malls on Broadway at Times Square and Herald Square, two of the most choked points in Midtown Manhattan, which is largely laid out on a grid of north-south avenues and east-west streets.
[From NY plans pedestrian zones on Broadway to ease traffic | Markets | US Markets | Reuters]
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