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Will a Car-Free Broadway Work?
By John Tierney
In 1997, one of my proposals was greeted with the usual thunderous silence. I proposed creating the Piazza Broadway by banishing cars from the the Great White Way near Times Square. It wasn’t a strictly original idea — a similar scheme had been proposed in the 1970s — although I do believe I was the first to suggest decorating the plaza with a statue of a three-card monte dealer and a pedestrian bridge modeled on the Ponte Vecchio in Florence, to be called the Ponte di Tre Monte."
Thursday, February 26, 2009
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I am sure that this will work. Currently, the area is crying out for pedestrianization. People will fill these spaces and make them really vibrant. Times Square will become a great public place for walking instead of a place for being hit by a car.
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