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>So make the sidewalks wider. I can think of nowhere in the US more appropriate to allocate more space to sidewalks than Manhattan. I wonder how much that woul
by jccalhoun 10y ago
>So make the sidewalks wider. I can think of nowhere in the US more appropriate to allocate more space to sidewalks than Manhattan.
I wonder how much that would solve and how much it would make worse? I think that I've heard that adding more lanes to roads can make congestion worse because more people use the roads. I wonder if the same would be true for pedestrian walkways?
- kbenson 10y agoEven if you accept that as entirely true, that likely means more people walking instead of using cars, and since cars use far more static and dynamic space (negotiating obstacles/other cars), eliminating even one lane and filling it with walking traffic would likely be a very large net win.