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Traffic in Manhattan would flow at least ten million times faster if the city would aggressively ticket and tow double parking. I routinely see streets that cou
by cwhiz 6y ago
Traffic in Manhattan would flow at least ten million times faster if the city would aggressively ticket and tow double parking. I routinely see streets that could accommodate 4 lanes of traffic on each side that are reduced to a single lane of flowing traffic.
They should also just outright ban, and enforce, no left turns. It sounds silly and stupid but it would help.
These 4 lane roads are typically: 1 lane parking, 1 lane double parking, 1 lane flowing, 1 lane someone sitting trying to turn left.
Not to mention all the bus lanes that are just constantly full of idling, double parked, cars.
- leephillips 6y agoWhen driving in Manhattan¹, unless I could see an immediate opening for a left turn, I made three rights instead. Even if it wasn’t faster, it was more fun. And, if I had a passenger, the reaction was as if I was a visitor from Jupiter who was privvy to an exotic nonEuclidean geomertry unknown to Earth people. ¹I know, usually a dumb thing to do anyway.