>This is great news, until we look at the open space and say, "Wow! Now we can fit so many more commuters on these streets."
>It's just that NYC culture is about trying to cram the most things in one place.
One possibility in this case is to just fill the streets with people in the way they transiently get filled during coordinated street closures and in the way they are more or less permanently so in the right areas of Barcelona, Paris, Pattaya, etc. This would take a lot of planning and lobbying to get done right I imagine.
>It's just that NYC culture is about trying to cram the most things in one place.
One possibility in this case is to just fill the streets with people in the way they transiently get filled during coordinated street closures and in the way they are more or less permanently so in the right areas of Barcelona, Paris, Pattaya, etc. This would take a lot of planning and lobbying to get done right I imagine.