http://www.streetfilms.org/the-pedestrian-crush-on-34th-7th-avenue/ Documenting Livable Streets Worldwide Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:10:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.streetfilms.org/the-pedestrian-crush-on-34th-7th-avenue/comment-page-1/#comment-179671 Jim Sun, 13 Jun 2010 04:03:46 +0000 http://www.streetfilms.org/?p=5021#comment-179671 I get what the narrator is saying and agree, but his strident tone and repeats don't make me want to.  A bit hysterical with the crushed kid bit. I get what the narrator is saying and agree, but his strident tone and repeats don't make me want to.  A bit hysterical with the crushed kid bit.

]]> http://www.streetfilms.org/the-pedestrian-crush-on-34th-7th-avenue/comment-page-1/#comment-25231 Guerrilla Giving Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:07:42 +0000 http://www.streetfilms.org/?p=5021#comment-25231 "Space Hog"--Absolutely correct, esp. considering that most of the behemoths have but one occupant. Crazy. Thanks for this. "Space Hog"--Absolutely correct, esp. considering that most of the behemoths have but one occupant. Crazy. Thanks for this.

]]> http://www.streetfilms.org/the-pedestrian-crush-on-34th-7th-avenue/comment-page-1/#comment-25221 Howard Freeman Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:52:45 +0000 http://www.streetfilms.org/?p=5021#comment-25221 I'm sympathetic, having been born and raised here (96th and Madison) and now raising three boys on the UWS. That said, the argument is 100% correct for 34th and Seventh and perhaps a small radius around it, but not for most other neighborhoods. My office is at 36th and Bway and even before the pedestrian mall, there was very little traffic in front of us. Commuters coming in from Long Island and New Jersey account for just as much of the congestion problem at that intersection as "too many cars." But we wouldn't of course think about cutting down on commuting workers, who are just as much of NYC's vitality as anything else. I think the solution is a local one - to that neighborhood - not a universal one to the borough of Manhattan. Stats in this video are provocative but do not gyve with my decades of living in different neighborhoods in Manhattan. Also, it's not a horrible place for kids b/c of traffic. I'd rather put a ban on soft porn ads on bus shelters. I'm sympathetic, having been born and raised here (96th and Madison) and now raising three boys on the UWS. That said, the argument is 100% correct for 34th and Seventh and perhaps a small radius around it, but not for most other neighborhoods. My office is at 36th and Bway and even before the pedestrian mall, there was very little traffic in front of us. Commuters coming in from Long Island and New Jersey account for just as much of the congestion problem at that intersection as "too many cars." But we wouldn't of course think about cutting down on commuting workers, who are just as much of NYC's vitality as anything else. I think the solution is a local one - to that neighborhood - not a universal one to the borough of Manhattan. Stats in this video are provocative but do not gyve with my decades of living in different neighborhoods in Manhattan. Also, it's not a horrible place for kids b/c of traffic. I'd rather put a ban on soft porn ads on bus shelters.

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