Forest Children with Chalk

Campaign NYC 25x25 comes from Transportation Alternatives where planners were bold enough to imagine what it would look like to remove one-quarter of the city's automobile occupancy and return it to people by 2025. Not utopian just what is happening in Oslo and Paris right now (full SLATE article).

Removing one-quarter of NYC's 19,000 miles of driving lanes and 3-million free parking spaces, New York City could:  

•  give pedestrians access to 1,000 miles of streets
•  car-free block for play, outdoor learning, pickup/drop at 1,700 public schools.
•  put every resident within a five-minute walk of 500 miles of bus lanes, 
•  500 miles of (real, car-protected) bike lanes
•  lease 5.4 million square feet of street space to businesses and nonprofits
• put public bike parking on every block.
• plant 15,000 new trees, the equivalent of adding almost Central Park
• establish hubs for street vendors, benches, trees, public bathrooms, 
• bike charging, and bike parking outside every subway station,
• raise billions for transit by metering public parking spaces.  

 

-LS