The seemingly eternal problem in the NYC metro area is the timing of the highway revolt. There's a bunch of giant pieces of infrastructure that were built to s

The seemingly eternal problem in the NYC metro area is the timing of the highway revolt. There's a bunch of giant pieces of infrastructure that were built to serve those intended highways. That's not to say I wish the highways were built, only that it's made cutting down on cars significantly in Manhattan nearly untenable from a regional transportation perspective, because the outlying "rings" to avoid going through the core are lacking. I wish it came 10 or 20 years earlier and that said pieces of infrastructure were instaed better "outer rings" (ex: Things like A Long Island Sound road crossing) to be able to avoid going anywhere near the core for many trips.