Me thinks some of those wildin', growned-up crack-babies, after leaving the Auto Show, were venting at the loss of Times Square.

♫

I tip my 40 to your memory

Take a drink, and I

Stop to think, and I

I know one day soon

We'll be, we'll be hangin' out

This is for my homies...♫

According to wikipedia (sometimes accurate 100% of the time), 48% of Manhattan residents own cars and 30% use them to commute to work, but we get into a tizzy when a tiny portion is converted for pedestrian use?

I also like that it attracts "smokers, vagrants, and lazy people." Because these people don't exist outside pedestrian walkways...it might get as bad as the 70s! I saw taxi driver!

Really, I don't care...I avoid times and herald square religiously anyway; what would make me really happy is to close them entirely and perhaps force the waddling masses from Kansas and Arkansas to eat somewhere besides Applebees.

Building a city for those who actually live in it & work in it? CRAZY. What about all those poor, dear out of towners who commute to it, pollute it, & burn through the roads without ever paying a dime of taxes? WHAT ABOUT THOSE POOR DEARS?

Every other one way street should become a bike lane, & the others should be two-way. More spaces should be turned into miniparks. Go go go!

yes, what we need is to stop productive workers from commuting into the city. clearly that's the solution that benefits everyone. there is certainly enough room on Manhattan Island for everyone to live and bike around in communal bliss, we'll just build super condos to the moon!

No, I'd probably relax if they paid commuter tolls. Besides, creating incentive to move from the out-of-town locale you live in (your residential tax shelter) into the city is a smart city policy.

Who the fuck commutes into Manhattan by car?

would you like names and addresses? or are you just making a general statement posed as a question?

I suggest a two-block stretch of Queens boulevard be turned into a pedestrian plaza at the Queens Center mall in Elmhurst.

It's mainly foot traffic now as it is, and who gives a sh*t about queens blvd, anyway?.

yes to all of that. that area is such a clusterfuck and the Queens Blvd is a deathtrap. divert the traffic to highways and create a park-and-ride for the douchey big box shoppers.

They paved paradise, put up a pedestrian plaza.

Keeping giuliani's legacy going huh? Shouldnt the headlines say: transform seven block of broadway into 2 1/2 acres of *tourist oases*? So sad our city is being destroyed rite before our eyes. Times square was given to the tourists, central park, museums ect. Soon, we'll be forced to give them our souls

god im so sick of those elmo and cookie monster thieves. i wish someone would arrest them for copyright infringement.

God imagine all those bro's lounging around in the future Murray Hill pedestrian plaza...hopefully they can build a Buffalo Wild Wings right in the middle

oh man, that'd be so awesome!

Right now you have to go to Fulton and Atlantic for those savory wings . . . yummy!

I would venture the majority of daily Post readers are not regular motorists.

I would venture the majority of daily Post readers don't care if they own a car or not as long as they have something to be outraged about.

"Never mind that the traffic rerouted around the plazas is moving faster in almost all directions."

Tell that to the fireman who works in Midtown West with whom I was talking to recently about his job and who spontaneously volunteered, "Well, that pedestrian mall in Times Square in slowing down our response time going down Ninth Avenue when we have a call."

Tell that to the family whose home is burning. Tell that to the victim in the burn unit.

The fireman never said that the mall made other streets faster! No.

But some of us will still believe the bogus stats spun by DOT, and disregard the real-time actuality.

If Bloomberg wants this, why isn't he putting one on his block?

I think we know the answer to that. You think he wants peons congregating in front of his house?

maybe we should halve every block in manhattan thereby creating twice as many roads. then emergency response time would improve and save lives. good argument.

while i agree that statistics are just statistics, the fact is that less cars on the road makes manhattan way nicer. it's one of the best cities in the world; why do we have to have highways covering 25% of it?

How about we just ban all cars and that way the streets will be wide open for emergency vehicles?

[Family Feud] Good answer, good answer! [/Family Feud]