Banishing Cars From Broadway Revives Midtown Manhattan

by Emily Gertz · 2009-08-26 17:46:00 UTC
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How do you make cities safer for pedestrians, more pleasant for cyclists, and more conducive to healthy civic life? And cut greenhouse gas emissions in the process?

Just break the grip of "Carmageddon" and let a few streets live free of cars.

This video from Streetfilms takes you on a tour of New York City's newly car-free blocks of Broadway. Far from creating a traffic nightmare as predicted by naysayers, the city's move to close sections of Broadway to traffic has succeeded wildly.

Even businesses, which hated the idea, are benefitting, now that delivery trucks can actually do deliveries, instead of sitting mired in traffic.

Emily Gertz
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