What REALLY Causes Traffic Backups?
When people first learned from the New York Post that city officials intentionally slow Midtown traffic, they were skeptical. Now, it appears there is some truth to the reason behind the traffic tie-ups.
The current spate of gridlock is brought to New Yorkers courtesy of the Bloomberg and de Blasio administrations. The effort has taken more than ten years of redesigning streets, cutting pedestrian/bicycle paths through some of the city's busiest intersections and making life miserable for drivers.
The hope is those grid-locked vehicle operators will turn to mass transit — or bicycles.
"The traffic is engineered," a former top.
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