On Thursday, New York City transformed one of its most congested streets into a “busway” that delighted long frustrated bus riders and transit advocates but left many drivers and local businesses fuming that the city had gone too far.
Passenger cars, including taxis and Ubers, were all but banned from 14th Street, a major crosstown route for 21,000 vehicles a day that links the East and West Sides of Manhattan.
— The New York Times
The New York Times tries out NYC's new cross-town, car-free boulevard along 14th Street in Manhattan.
Under the new rules, between the hours of 6 AM to 10 PM every day, cars are only allowed allowed to make deliveries or pick up and drop off passengers along the stretch of the street; Drivers are not allowed to make left turns, however, and their movements will be monitored by surveillance cameras.
Danny Pearlstein, a spokesperson for transit advocacy group Riders Alliance told The New York Times, “It’s not that cars are losing ground, it’s that New Yorkers are gaining ground, literally. We make the city what it is. Cars get in the way."
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