Starting on Monday, cars will be all but banned from one of Manhattan’s main thoroughfares.
The busiest stretch of 14th Street—a major crosstown route for 21,000 vehicles a day that links the East and West Sides—will mostly be off-limits to cars. Drivers will be allowed onto the street for just a block or two to make deliveries and pick up and drop off passengers. Then they will have to turn off.
— The New York Times
Closing a stretch of 14th Street in Manhattan to most car traffic is but the latest step New York City officials has taken in recent years to wrest precious urban space from automobiles.
According to The New York Times, since 2008, the City of New York has installed 79 car-free pedestrian plazas across the city, and built 1,243 miles of bicycle lanes, including 480 miles of separated bike lanes.
The moves come as the city moves to institute a congestion pricing plan that would charge drivers to travel anywhere south of 60th Street in Manhattan.
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Victory for whom?
Humans.
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