The Great Wide Way

 

Who are all these people in my yard?

 

 

Psh, I read today on Gothamist, that the NY Post, is not a lover of the new move in the city to to block traffic on Broadway, between 47th and 42nd Street.  If you’re not familiar with the move, basically Bloomberg wants more pedestrians, less cars in this great city of ours, and I, for one, fully agree.  I’ll make my sacrifice (as this affects me too, as the occasional driver and relative of drivers (thanks dad)), I fully feel that cars, especially in Manhattan, kill certain characteristics of the city and the less cars, the better.  

I saw it for the first time today and thought it was great.  Everyone’s out in the street and the street feels more like it’s namesake “SQUARE”, than two streets colliding to form a Crossroads of The Taxi World.  It reminded me of all those European cities, with their central meeting squares.  I mentioned this to my friends who I travelled with to Europe and just this one line sold them.  Why?  Because when you’re traveling, those squares ground you.  You stand there and say to yourself, Here I am, and then you go from there.

Screw the Post.  They don’t know squat.  

This has, and always will be a walking city.  The car thing is relatively new.  And in the past two decades, the sidewalks have become unbearably crowded.  Opening up Broadway to pedestrians will only add more character to the city (as the picture above shows).  And the people and the tourists especially love it.  So if the tourists, with their money like this more than 6 blocks of taxi’s, I say give it to them because we like their money.