2010-09-20
Framing the New Broadway: 'Green Ribbon' or 'Narrow Passageway'? By Charles Komanoff, Streetblog.org, September 7, 2010. "The article, by Times transportation reporter Michael Grynbaum, is exemplary in many respects. It thoughtfully lets transportation guru Jeff Zupan declare that the stepwise transformation of Manhattan's central thoroughfare is boosting the status of pedestrians throughout town… The article's true soul may reside in the lone everyman quoted, whom Grynbaum describes as 'a daily car commuter from Queens who was parked on Broadway at 33rd Street the other day 'know they're trying to beautify the city, but it's killing the drivers. It's frustrating. They don't want you to drive into the city.'…Framing the city's ongoing traffic disaster in these terms may be crucial to maintaining Broadway as a permanent 'green ribbon,' not to mention winning the rest of the livable streets agenda, from pedestrians' rights to traffic pricing, that can make New York a city fit for working and living."
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