Many of the world’s global cities have realized that they can improve transit efficiency, resident safety and quality of life, as well as increase foot traffic for businesses, by implementing inexpensive street redesigns.
These redesigns would, in general, increase space for pedestrians and cyclists, increase tree coverage and enable us to accommodate dumpsters that will combat our rodent issues.
Street redesigns can achieve many of the goals of congestion pricing, but without increasing taxes and fees, without creating a street surveillance network, and most importantly, without giving control of our streets to New York State, which is exactly what the current congestion pricing plan does.