NYC's Mayor just announced "Summer Streets"- an experimental initiative where a 6.9-mile swath of NYC's East Side will be closed to traffic for several Saturdays from 11-1pm in August. Is this not adding to a traffic nightmare?
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I think he's trying to appease the public since the incident where a police officer knocked a guy off his bicycle.
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It is - unless people change their habits. But it is not obviously wrong for the Mayor to ask one group of people to change their habits for the benefit of another group of people. I am not saying it is necessarily right either - I am not a NYC resident so I cannot judge the respective costs and benefits. But many people believe that many cities swung too far in favour of the car and commuters and against residents and pedestrians. If the pendulum is to swing back to a position more in accord with the feeling of the times (note that I do not say the right position, because I know of no way to judge that objectively), then drivers must suffer from the change. The how and when is a political process, of which the Mayr is a leader.
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