The city will shut down Park Avenue to create a temporary pedestrian-only corridor during the summer, Mayor Bloomberg said Monday.
Called Summer Streets it will north-south for 6.9 miles from the Brooklyn Bridge to 72nd Street. The route will follow Lafayette Street and Park Avenue and turn on 72nd to connect to Central Park. Cars will be banned from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. on three consecutive Saturdays in August, the 9th, 16th and 23rd. Similar programs exist in Paris and Bogota, Columbia.
Instead of Italian sausage stands there will be yoga lessons.
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This is the lamest idea to come out of the Bloomberg spin machine yet.
As if there's been some public outcry for shutting down Park Avenue. This is just another phase of the passive aggressive attack on people having the audacity to travel within their own city and it, not so coincidently, cuts off every major crossing preventing east-west traffic.
The Bloomberg administration itself it causing most of the extreme congestion that they're trying to tax.
If half the energy had be put into simply using monorail shuttles instead of all these major (and useless) Transportation projects like the the 7 line expansion and the Fulton hub - the MTA might have had money to fund 100% hybrid buses, service expansions, or a at least not annual fare increases.
Bloomberg has diverted all transit funds to money pit vanity projects that are designed to supplement his priority social project - luxury housing for millionaires - at public expense.
Before Mike Bloomberg the subways used to be able to run when it rained too.