1) Implement MoveNY. 30% of motor vehicles in CBD have no destination in CBD they are driving in CBD toll shopping to get to LI or NJ.
2) Implement NYCDOT SMARTmeter plan citywide: Street Parking is too valuable to give away from little or no cost. Street Parking should cost equal to off street parking
3) Expand Loading Zones on every avenuein CBD: Delivery trucks and For hires vehicles should have the curb space to do their vital work without blocking lanes.
5) Complete Streets: Amsterdam, 2nd ave, 5th ave., 6th ave in 2016. Dedicated bus lanes, pedestrian islands, protected bike lanes, and 25MPH signal timing.
6) have the courage to expand pedestrian plazas everywhere in CBD. Proptery Values increase with pedestrian plazas. Have the courage to eventually link all the pedestrian plazas along Broadway from Union Square to Central Park in a linear chain of great spaces.
7) have the courage to expand sidewalks when building complete streets
You bring upma imteresting question regarding cycling. 'What % of cycling trips would otherwise be by car, subway, walk ?'
a guesstimate might be 10% of bike trips are substitutes for car trips. On thr UES, Citibike had 75,000 trips from 10.oct to 21.oct. r traffic counts have citibikes as 1/4 -1/3 of roadway bike traffic.
That suggests about 225,000 bikes trip on UES during 21 days. If only 10% of those removed a car, that is 1,000 cars a day removed from UES from 60th to 81st !
Reduce Congestion in CBD
1) Implement MoveNY. 30% of motor vehicles in CBD have no destination in CBD they are driving in CBD toll shopping to get to LI or NJ.
2) Implement NYCDOT SMARTmeter plan citywide: Street Parking is too valuable to give away from little or no cost. Street Parking should cost equal to off street parking
3) Expand Loading Zones on every avenuein CBD: Delivery trucks and For hires vehicles should have the curb space to do their vital work without blocking lanes.
5) Complete Streets: Amsterdam, 2nd ave, 5th ave., 6th ave in 2016. Dedicated bus lanes, pedestrian islands, protected bike lanes, and 25MPH signal timing.
6) have the courage to expand pedestrian plazas everywhere in CBD. Proptery Values increase with pedestrian plazas. Have the courage to eventually link all the pedestrian plazas along Broadway from Union Square to Central Park in a linear chain of great spaces.
7) have the courage to expand sidewalks when building complete streets
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private cars are fine in CBD, just stop subsidizing their use.
1) MoveNY
2) Gov't employees have no placards, zero, even the Mayor
3)) eliminate all free curbside parking in all of Manhattan would be a start.
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merich,
You bring upma imteresting question regarding cycling. 'What % of cycling trips would otherwise be by car, subway, walk ?'
a guesstimate might be 10% of bike trips are substitutes for car trips. On thr UES, Citibike had 75,000 trips from 10.oct to 21.oct. r traffic counts have citibikes as 1/4 -1/3 of roadway bike traffic.
That suggests about 225,000 bikes trip on UES during 21 days. If only 10% of those removed a car, that is 1,000 cars a day removed from UES from 60th to 81st !
Now that is a big positive impact.
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