On: Downside of Lower Manhattan’s Boom: It’s Too Crowd...

[bogomipz]

Where do vehicles that makes deliveries stop? How to the delis and restaurant that serve the day population down there get their supplies?

The area is filled with Mom and Pop shops and these are typically hit the hardest.

[kuschku → bogomipz]

Look at european cities with pedestrian-only streets: They allow delivery vehicles on those, too.

That’s a solution that could work there as well. Only allow buses and delivery vehicles and emergency vehicles on the street.

[bogomipz → kuschku]

But those need to parking spaces to they can unload and make deliveries. Manhattan is unlike any European city, it is an 8 x 2 mile island laid out in a grid.

[kuschku → bogomipz]

Why dedicated parking spaces?

Just make one wide road, of one type, and allow pedestrians to walk anywhere, and delivery vehicles to park anywhere on it.

We do the same here, it works well.

[nashashmi → kuschku]

The design is called "Shared Street" and has been difficult to get the community to accept in NYC. I know because we tried. Something about cars going about freely on pedestrian filled roads scares a lot of people.

[kuschku → nashashmi]

Well, then create one single lane for cars/taxi/etc through the shared street, limit it to delivery vehicles and busses, and allow parking on the rest.

Pedestrians know they won’t get hurt on the rest, and you don’t lose space.