>"The city has been massively transformed to allow outdoor dining." Massively? The city has simply allowed restaurants to put tables out in the street and shar

>"The city has been massively transformed to allow outdoor dining." Massively? The city has simply allowed restaurants to put tables out in the street and share the street with passing cars. You have people eating out in the road while surrounded by gridlock traffic, exhaust fumes and all the accompanying horn honking. It's a total shit show. Additionally the Open Streets initiative been implemented in such a haphazard patchwork manner it could hardly be viewed as anything remotely transformative. This is a pretty spot on overview: https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2020/07/07/op-ed-open-streets-isnt-working-for-all-of-the-people/ https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2020/07/07/op-ed-open-streets-is...