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rumayor
on Dec 2, 2016
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Downside of Lower Manhattan’s Boom: It’s Too Crowd...
Barcelona has the answer: close many blocks to cars.
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/may/17/superblocks-r...
ng12
on Dec 2, 2016
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That's not the problem. The FiDi has no throughways, only local traffic. The only vehicles down there are taxis doing pickups/dropoffs and delivery trucks. It's just massively more dense than Barcelona.
chris_7
on Dec 2, 2016
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No more taxis, then, deliveries and access-a-ride (
shudder
) only (and deliveries only at night).
The bankers can walk.
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