UWS Streets Renaissance: Amsterdam Avenue
For those who live on or near Amsterdam Avenue, they know that with its designed- for-speed geometry the street feels more like a highway then a place for human beings to thrive. Here, TOPP Executive Director Mark Gorton discusses Amsterdam and the impact on residents. But hope lurks - a photo simulation near the end provides a glimpse of what a safer, complete street could look like.
[intro music]
Mark Gorton: [00:10]
Here we are in Amsterdam Avenue which is just a massive traffic highway
right in the middle of the Upper West Side. I mean the Upper West
Side is a residential neighbourhood and this street has been designed
without any consideration for the people that live around here and it’s
all about moving traffic. And it is just an unpleasant street
to be near. I have to walk my kids to nursery school down this
street, we walk a half mile down Amsterdam, you can’t even talk to
them because it’s so loud. If we change our policies, we can
reduce the level of traffic on Amsterdam enormously.
[music]
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