I wish New York City :

1. Only allowed residents and business owners to park in the streets of Manhattan.
   If it were up to me, I would issue special EZ-Pass-like permit readers good for a 10 block perimeter from where people lived --so that it would discourage car owners from using their cars to move from one end of the island to another and instead force people to use mass transit.

   It's ridiculous to hear Manhattanites bitch and moan about traffic problems when they insist in driving in the city instead of using mass transit.

2. Banned suburban buses from NYC streets.
   Why in the world are we allowing buses from Long Island or Yonkers on our city streets? Get suburbanites to walk from drop-off garages instead of having their "I want my oil from Iraq" boxes clog our city streets and pollute our air.

3. Turned whole avenues into pedestrian, bike and pedicap traffic only.
   Broadway is impossible to close because it goes all the way up to Yonkers but if it where up to me, I'd nominate First, Park, 6th and 9th as the avenues most like to benefit from having no cars, trucks or any other kind of motorized vehicles entering them.

4. If closing down whole avenues is too radical, then I wish New York City would cover whole swaths of Manhattan with pedestrian zones.
   How about a car-free West Village? How about the East Village all the way down to Loisaida? Washington Square? Soho? All of Chinatown?

I'm a downtowner, so I can't imagine areas uptown, but 125th Street from 5th all the way to 8th Avenue comes to mind.

What's on your traffic alternatives wish list? I'd like to hear from people in other boroughs? What do you dream about whenever you curse at that car that almost hit you?

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