Here’s the view from 45th Street looking south at about 1 pm today, about 30 minutes after the city Dept. of Transportation closed Broadway to motor vehicle traffic in Midtown. It’s obviously way too soon to judge how this experiment is working but today, at least, car-free Broadway appears to be a huge hit.
https://www.streetsblog.org/2009/05/24/car-free-space-is-an-instant-hit-on-broadway/oldId.20090525220339530
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Lose the Traffic. Keep That Times Square Grit.
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/arts/design/26clos.html
Honk, Honk, Aaah
Janette Sadik-Khan, the city’s Transportation commissioner, manages to be equal parts Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses. As she prepares to close swaths of Broadway to cars next week, she is igniting a peculiar new culture war—over the role of the automobile in New York.
https://nymag.com/news/features/56794/
Manhattan: Economic Lights Burn Bright In Times Square
https://www.ny1.com/content/special_reports/recession_hits_home/100938/-i-manhattan—i–economic-lights-burn-bright-in-times-square/Default.aspx
You mean accommodating people and not just cars has an economic benefit? Who would have thought.