In no other city could seven blocks seem like a daunting drive – in no other city than New York that is…
I’m on a crosstown bus on the way to see a friend and it is creeping down a major arterial, taxis are everywhere sneaking and darting in and out of traffic – the bus is going a mind numbing ten miles an hour – I can think of no solution better than bus/taxi hybrid lanes with curb pullouts for taxis dropping off people – or bus express lanes – or even elevated trains… This way people can get where they are going and everything will work out with additional delays
As the city grows, even the best planned city traffic management proves to be ineffective.
I can totally agree with this – except for the simplistic view that increasing capacity for simple one leg trips helps to alleviate traffic. Cities are really only aggregated clusters of people and tasks. If one knows enough about the general traffic patterns of these clusters, one can theoretically try to “grease the wheels” for this traffic…that said, theoretical considerations and abilities are different from practical ones…