Times Square Goes Car-Free
Starting this weekend, a five-block stretch along Broadway in NYC will be a pedestrian-only zone. From Newsday:
One of two new no-car zones created along Broadway by Mayor Michael Bloomberg (the other promenade will stretch from 33rd to 35th streets on Broadway at Herald Square, near Macy’s), the usually clogged stretch from 42nd Street north to 47th became a place for tourists and locals alike to meander along the sun-drenched avenue without having to worry about racing cabs and irate drivers trying to navigate congestion.
Making these tourist-heavey areas car-fee will not just make the area safer and friendlier, but it will also hopefully entice some people to walk when they would have normally called a cab or driven themselves.
Image by J Gutierrez.
nice, it’s about time! when i was there last nye it was car happy, except for nye itself… but i wasn’t stupid enough to be there then! (: