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« Taking Back the Streets

By JEFF BYLES
Published: April 6, 2008

NEW YORK’S streets are as gritty as the city’s reputation, traffic-clogged canyons of concrete where New Yorkers, on foot and in vehicles, jostle and growl, exulting all the while. Stared down a Hummer lately? Yet there is a growing desire to tame New York’s 5,800 miles of streets, sidewalks and highways, which constitute the city’s principal social space.

The most highly publicized effort is Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing proposal, which was approved by the City Council on Monday and as of Friday evening was awaiting a vote by the State Legislature. But ideas for calming New York’s historically hectic streets go far beyond congestion pricing. Those ideas, moreover, seem to signal a shift in the basic thinking of what streets are for .(...)» - in THE NEW YORK TIMES