… We’ve made a lot of announcements, obviously about expanding bike lanes, expanding bus service, busways, et cetera. “The focus that we have is to get people out of their cars, get people back to mass transit. I experienced it myself,” the mayor told Streetsblog on Wednesday when we asked why this week’s gridlock alerts were not also coupled by serious street management policies to reduce the influx of cars. “I think we have a real congestion problem. On Monday, the first of this week’s “alert” days, a whopping 895,109 cars traveled across MTA-owned bridges and tunnels, according to the agency’s data - roughly the same as the Monday before, when no so-called alert was in effect.Īnd all the mayor had to say about it on Wednesday was … the same thing he said months ago. Car drivers are basically ignoring the city’s “ Gridlock Alert” days for the UN General Assembly this week, driving into Manhattan in roughly the same numbers as last week, according to preliminary MTA data - a result of the mayor’s failure to create policies that get people out of cars and into mass transit on days when the city knows long in advance that roads and neighborhoods will be turned into pollution-, noise- and stress-filled parking lots, advocates said.
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