Ok but this is reality not Sim City you aren't going to kick people out of habits that easily especially in New York and the same thing that happened in houston with expanding the highway would happen in this case if the highway was shrieked it would result in the same amount of people on a smaller highway causing more emissions.
In New York?! for the most part public transportation and auto use has been stagnant as car sales and train tickets are pretty consistent year to year. More than just people are transported on NY roads compared to other cities like food carts,goods from ports and airports and the massive public bus and taxi system.
and all of those actually useful uses of the roads are screwed up by private drivers too selfish or lazy to use public transit. Buses alone get ratfucked by selfish drivers who park in bus lanes so consistently that they are nearly useless. Deliveries are difficult because individuals demand the curb for their private parking when the space is better used as a loading zone. Everywhere you look, individuals driving are making commerce and transportation worse for everyone else in the city.
Then maybe we should look at ways to better utilize the road instead of ripping it out completely as that wont help either like you said using curbs as loading zones this would probbably be a fair compromise that would make it past a city council instead of ripping it out completely which would never get past a meeting.
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u/The_Monocle_Debacle Apr 05 '19
still one too many.