Thanks to a last-minute injunction issued Friday, 14th Street won’t be closed to normal crosstown traffic Monday.
But the fix is in: Soon enough, one of the city’s major crosstown arteries will be shut down as part of the progressive war on cars.
Officially, the 14th Street closure is part of a pilot plan aimed at boosting bus speeds between Third and Ninth avenues from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Yet officials barely conceal the real motive: making the cars go away.
We’ve seen “incredible competition for the streets,” says Polly Trottenberg, the city’s transportation commissioner, and “dedicated bus lanes are among the best ways to use that space as efficiently as possible.”
Maybe, but that doesn’t justify forcing drivers not in a bus lane to turn off within a block.
Time and again, Trottenberg and the other car-haters pretend that the enemy is “congestion,” even as they insist that all the turf taken by pedestrian plazas, dedicated bicycle lanes, CitiBike installations and so on somehow don’t boost congestion.
As will the 14th Street plan, notes lawyer Arthur Schwartz, the point man for neighborhood opposition and resident of 12th Street who argues that the change “simply shuffles cars on to the side streets.”
For the record, everyone on the Post-Editorial Board takes mass transit to work, as do most of our colleagues. But we can still recognize the ideological war on motorists for what it is.
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Returning to the Horse and Buggy days in the Big Apple and all that Manure and the stench
The politicians in NY appear more incompetent by the day .
If you didn’t have to be there why would you ?
How is it that the highest profile pedophile is left to be suicided ?
Another Seth Rich unsolved mystery.
The USA people are great but the country is disintegrating .
News just in — NYC has a traffic congestion problem.
Here is the solution, close down roads. Yes! This will solve everything. Brilliant!!
Their plan is not to relive traffic but to punish car drivers for their sins. They think by doing this people will give up their cars in favor of transit, even through by making traffic worse buses won’t be able to move.