The group Transportation Alternatives has released a report titled “The Blueprint for the Upper West Side: A Roadmap for Truly Livable Streets,” their first neighborhood-wide plan to dramatically transform an area within the city into a more pedestrian and cyclist-friendly environment. (It's available for download here.) The plan would have the greatest impact along Broadway, which the TA suggests cutting the space available to automobiles from six lanes to four, giving cyclists a lane in each direction, blocked off with obstacles like leafy planters.
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