[Bent] Bent Digest, Vol 50, Issue 3

[Clay Mikolasy]

Wow...Tapio apologized but then comes right back again ("where do Manhattanties need cars so badly in Mid-Town?"...Burton, you were right...Tapio, let me say that I hope you will come back to our country some day, I hope you will enjoy your time here, maybe I'll even ride with you sometime, but that I am not really interested to hear your opinions on how NYC or the US could do things to suit you better. And I promise you that I will not make any comments on a Finnish website on how your country could do things to suit ME better. OK?
----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Tapio Antero Osala 
  To: NY/NJ/CT/PA Metro Area Recumbent Society (MARS) 
  Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 1:26 PM
  Subject: Re: [Bent] Bent Digest, Vol 50, Issue 3




  2010/1/12 Burton Rothberg <brothberg at gmail.com>.


    Also, car-free plazas generally don't work in midtown Manhattan. The grid structure makes it hard. Just see what a street fair closure does. There are an increasing number of bike lanes, even some separated from the car flow. However, I don't use them. It's  faster to just take the road and mix it up with traffic. More fun too. 


  I can understand the need of cars in sub-urban areas but where do Manhattanties need cars so badly in Mid-Town?


  How many % of Manhattanties own a car? 
  How of them use it daily in Manhattan?


  Well, perhaps you are used to waiting in traffic lights, noise of cars. Manhattan is wonderfull as it is but could it be even better with car-free areas?


  Has this kind of issues been discussed?


  (In car-free areas the supply of goods is taken care between hours 6 - 10 AM)











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