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- Awwzm, on 10/18/2009, -5/+45A half a billion dollar light rail that's only gonna go crosstown? Put that money into making improvements to the existing subway.
- tomcat4u, on 10/18/2009, -2/+33Gotta love that photoshop job. They've even got a random black guy in the bottom right corner. Very tiny!
- mastersquirrel3, on 10/18/2009, -6/+30This is about as smart as the central park airport.
http://curbed.com/archives/2009/07/21/architectura ... - kaosethema, on 10/19/2009, -1/+21the 70''s called, they want their obsolete perspective back
- iDoraemon, on 10/19/2009, -1/+20Well, other first-world metropolitan cities in Europe and Asia with similar infrastructure already implemented have already addressed those problems fairly well. I'm not sure how this is a unique problem to NYC if the idea goes as planned.
- HeizeusX, on 10/19/2009, -2/+21They're not wrong, you know. Florida does suck ass.
- pilot3033, on 10/19/2009, -1/+17landing is one thing, it's taking off into the Empire State Building that bothers me. I've read through the website, I'm convinced it's a joke. That, and it'll never happen regardless. Us New Yorkers love Central Park too much, not to mention the nasty cross winds you can get here.
- anthropodeus, on 10/19/2009, -2/+16i dont even think it's possible for a plane to descend quickly enough to land there without hitting any buildlings . . .
- joshua5, on 10/19/2009, -1/+11Hmm lets see. A legitimate New York Times article about something relevant and newsworthy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/realestate/comme ...
...Or a no name blog rehashing the Times article, adding fluff, and their own web ads?
I wonder which one gets submitted to Digg and made popular! - Elranzer, on 10/19/2009, -0/+8Without New Yorkers, Florida would just be another Alabama. The only reason to visit the wretched state is thanks to Walt Disney. Your state's also responsible for Bush.
In short: Florida sucks. - mjoe, on 10/19/2009, -6/+14times square is the worst part of manhattan. after you've been once, you will never want to return and will always have to spend the time walking around it when the shortest distance would be to go straight through
- KublaiKhan, on 10/19/2009, -1/+9I kind of like the atmosphere and the grandness of the whole thing. But I would never shop or eat there, because it's an overpriced tourist trap.
- inactive, on 10/19/2009, -5/+13so says a hick who has never been there.
But you are right! Who needs all that culture? The museums, the fine dining, the theater. Who needs the myriad of shopping available? Who needs the sporting events?
What a ***** hole! - factsahoy, on 10/19/2009, -1/+8Not to mention the less-than-stellar track record of converting city streets to "pedestrian malls". State Street in Chicago was a massive failure and eventually reversed.
- austroLogi, on 10/19/2009, -3/+10i live in nyc, great idea... one request though.. finish the 2nd ave line first before you do this.
- BenRoth, on 10/19/2009, -1/+7@Wyodiver
Yes, we do want them here. They are our economy. - CrimsonBlur, on 10/19/2009, -1/+7A subway can transport orders of magnitude more people. It's not just about the rate of travel.
- centran, on 10/19/2009, -1/+7There are many towns that do that. Boston and several towns in Germany come to mind... and you know what? Every other day you hear a story of someone getting hit. So maybe not killing thousands but having a train like the one in the article will mean that people are going to get hit on a regular basis.
- captininsanity, on 10/19/2009, -4/+9Hows does a train make it through there without killing the thousands of oblivious pedestrians? Unless their plan is to reduce the population of unobservant people...
- beatleman, on 10/19/2009, -0/+5Parts of it. In May of this year they started closing certain parts of Broadway to traffic to see how it goes. It's the "Green Light for Midtown" project they mentioned in this article. If I remember right, it'll continue until the end of 2009 and they'll decide if they want it to be permanent or not...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/25/nyregion/25bway. ... - MarshalBanana, on 10/19/2009, -2/+7Yes, they made a big mistake in this article.
- gerrylazlo, on 10/19/2009, -2/+7That's a fascinating and relevant yarn you've spun.
- blitzkriegpunk, on 10/19/2009, -0/+5Light rail systems in major cities across the US? Why didn't we think of this sooner? Oh... wait, we did almost 100 years ago. That worked out well. Didn't it GM? Oh well, either way this would be great if they go ahead with it. Better late than never.
- digitalArtform, on 10/19/2009, -0/+5A pedestrian mall is already in place there, overlaid in a separate coexisting layer over the roadways. It's called NY jaywalking.
- CaptOblivious, on 10/19/2009, -0/+5Thanks factsahoy,
All I can add is that State street is STILL a ghost town from that move. - inactive, on 10/19/2009, -1/+5No other city has even CLOSE to the amount of those things than NY does. If ou think this, you have obviously never been to NY City. And you probably haven't been to NY City since the Dinkins or Koch era.
These days, not only does it have far more culture and other activities to do all in such an accessible area, it is also one of the SAFEST big cities around. - brad3378, on 10/19/2009, -9/+13Sounds like NYC is too big for its own good.
How are packages supposed to be delivered?
Is your plumber supposed to ride the subway with his tools?
How will restaurants buy/ship inventory?
How many people will be hit by trains while crossing the street? - MarshalBanana, on 10/19/2009, -0/+3If the train runs the length of 42nd street, how are cars supposed to cross from the east to west and vice versa? I guess it's like any other train crossing? That would mean pedestrians would have the ability to stop traffic to cross north and south of these streets, so traffic would be stopping quite a bit and pedestrians wouldn't be completely unaffected by traffic being on 42nd. Sooo, what;s the point of this whole thing then, really?
- gooberguy, on 10/19/2009, -0/+3hahahaha
- Elranzer, on 10/19/2009, -1/+4Methinks you doth protest too much.
I think you wish you could live there, but obviously you don't have what it takes. - iDoraemon, on 10/19/2009, -2/+5Yes they do, and successfully too. See: Europe.
- kashk5, on 10/19/2009, -0/+3There's no way a system like this would cut off vehicle traffic above and below 42nd street. It would be political suicide for any politician who would try and push such an idea. I can understand getting rid of vehicular traffic around Times Square, which they've already done, but not straight from one end of 42nd street to the other.
- shedtroll, on 10/19/2009, -2/+5Right, so because everyone else needs to use the car means everyone else need to as well? People will still be able to use the roads for commercial uses but if you're going there to shop you can use public transport.
Also, this 'train' you speak of sounds surprisingly like a tram, which European cities have had without problem.
http://www.trainnet.org/Libraries/Lib019/STRASNEU. ... - inactive, on 10/19/2009, -0/+3Why did you feel the need to post THREE seperate bitchfests on first level comments about NYC just 30 minutes apart?
And seriously...Fort Lauderdale ? You are mocking NY City when you live in Fort Lauderdale? Isn't that were people do to die? (Without retiring NYers, your city wouldn't even exist. So every time you see food on your plate, you should thank your lucky stars that people want to die in your ***** hole of a city/state.) - pilot3033, on 10/19/2009, -1/+4That's what I'm thinking. The idea of light-rail is nice, but the 7 train would do a much better job for crosstown traffic, extending it further west (as they are now) should help.
- BREZZZ, on 10/19/2009, -2/+5I'm more worried about the 8 foot tall guy behind those people.
- sivyr, on 10/19/2009, -0/+2That black guy in the yellow jacket is about to get smoked by a speeding train.
Excellent safety mechanisms.
I love concept artists. - kashk5, on 10/19/2009, -1/+3Because it's not truth. NYC is an amazing city
- inactive, on 10/19/2009, -0/+2Failer NYers? How is it a failure to be able to pay low level humans like you to do all their dirty work with the money they mae in aplace that actually MATTER to society?
You are nothing but NYers errand boy. And without NYers, your city would be much like Detroit. No WONDER you are so bitter. - gerrylazlo, on 10/19/2009, -1/+3Good luck with all that.
- AmazingSteve, on 10/19/2009, -1/+3Times Square. See it, look around, take a picture then get the ***** out.
- Leg0z, on 10/19/2009, -1/+3Not sure if it would happen in NYC, but in Portland Oregon, after lightrail was ran into the city, Almost every business along the lightrail tracks took a MASSIVE hit in business. Most of the shops closed down. Turns out that people like jumping in and out of their cars to buy ***** more then riding mass transit.
- AmazingSteve, on 10/19/2009, -1/+3The only person who would say that NYC sucks ass is a person who's never been there.
- Elranzer, on 10/19/2009, -1/+3No, Ft Lauderdale is where all the gays live in Florida. It's like their little San Francisco.
- brad3378, on 10/19/2009, -2/+4Do any of those other first world cities have subways and above ground trains?
This idea seems redundant to me. - ihate2regist, on 10/19/2009, -1/+2worked good for buffalo
- staticfire, on 10/19/2009, -0/+1I live in South Florida and I think it sucks ass here, although today there was some pretty nice weather. I guess it really depends on the area that you live in because where I live I know plenty of New Yorkers who don't bother me and have only met a few that do.
- captininsanity, on 10/19/2009, -0/+1I'm sure more than that die in car accidents anyway.
- staticfire, on 10/19/2009, -0/+1@Wyodiver maybe you should GTFO of Florida, cause your giving the rest of us a bad name.
Also Key West and South Beach is where all the gays live. Not Fort Lauderdale. -
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