Just Plain Wrong
By Mitch Berg
New York banishes cars from Times Square.
As part of a plan to make the Big Apple nicer to live in, the Department of Transportation has banned cars from stretches of Broadway at Times Square and at Herald Square – near Macy’s flagship department store.
Times Square without cars? Sounds like the Mall of America without Japanese tourists…
May 26th, 2009 at 7:45 am
It starts that way, but that’s merely the camel’s nose in the tent. Incramentalism is the success story of the day. Someday, cars in general will be banned everywhere but museums. “People used to poison the atmosphere, and depleete the planet of resources just to get frpom place to place!” Another one jsut happened with health care: Now since they managed to get Daniel Hauser to come back and accept court-ordered medical treatment, that sets the stage for the government to tell us who and what about health care. I lived through it before because I was young and healthy and the son of a doctor. Now I am older, my father retired and then passed away, and “it” is happening here. I hope I never get sick or injured once this hits the fan. I am slo going to invest in a “permanent” (disease causing) shopping bag, and a bus pass. Just like the current administration would have me do. Yep, I plan on not being sent to a “happy camp” for wanting my motorized personal coveyance (sic) (I should only use public transportation or electric roller skates).
Baby steps, that’s how they do it. AC and his crowd will eventually win, and it has me wishing to die before I see the kind of world that will make. Soylent green anyone? (he he he)
May 26th, 2009 at 11:36 am
I haven’t checked it out myself, but the thing about Broadway is that it’s a diagonal street cutting through the middle of what is otherwise a grid of east-west and north-south streets. There’s no real good reason for driving on Broadway from Times Square to Herald Square, unless your purpose is to cause your head to explode. Angryclown is certainly willing to see if it works.
May 26th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
Time to fess up!! angryclown is actually a woman from West Virginia!
May 26th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
There’s no real good reason for driving on Broadway from Times Square to Herald Square
I noticed the cabbies seemed to avoid it.
May 26th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
I noticed the cabbies seemed to avoid it.
And that’s saying something, because NYC cabbies are some of the most skilled drivers in the world. I once had a cabbie who got us from Wall Street to the Algonquin Hotel in less than 10 minutes. I still don’t know how he did it.
May 26th, 2009 at 10:22 pm
Part of the fun of Times Square is watching the cabs barrel through the intersections teeming with people.