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Re: Queens Light Rail Map (with Subway Improvements) |
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Posted by The Port of Authority on Sun Mar 30 00:43:00 2008, in response to Re: Queens Light Rail Map (with Subway Improvements), posted by WillD on Sun Mar 30 00:32:14 2008. Chicago's State Street didn't fare very well when cars were eliminated. However, it was rehabbed in the 1990s and once again allows cars, and it seems to be doing fine (although it's ridiculous to assume that the mere presence of cars automatically makes a district better, but eliminating them often doesn't help.)Long Beach's transit mall isn't really a business district in itself (most of the stores are on perpendicular Pine Avenue or Long Beach Boulevard), but it's not exactly the nicest area -- the large bus shelters attract homeless people, doing nothing to help. Denver's 16th Street mall appears to be doing fairly well, but the presence of the center island in the middle of the mall attracts legions of homeless people. My point is that taking a major street in the middle of a CBD that's trying to improve and isolating that street from the grid (by means of eliminating cars and/or routing all the transit through it) doesn't really help a district improve. I don't understand why transit supposedly can't coexist with automobile traffic in the middle of major cities. |
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