There are some grocery stores in NYC that have service train stops underneath. You would need to have something like that built out and easy to plug into before getting rid of cars. It’s doable though. Secaucus is already like a park and ride station. Van Cordt in the Bronx has enough space to act as another if they eminent domain all the mansions.
You would need to have something like that built out and easy to plug into before getting rid of cars
Why?
I mean yeah, transit expansion necessary. And if you plan to actually make the streets impassable to delivery vehicles then I guess stores need freight access, but just to ban or severely restrict private cars?
Sure you can get rid of the private cars but there are a shit ton of trucks and cars doing deliveries in Manhattan. You wouldn’t really reclaim much of the streets because they would still need the access.
the photo shows what appears to be 7 lanes. I think you could reclaim a fuckton of that lol. I’m not saying you have to fill it all in with buildings and have no streets but 100ft wide streets is a lot of space to play around with.
look at the cars in that photo and tell me more than 10% are commercial vehicles.
