“Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani could make driving in the Big Apple hell on wheels.” – as if traffic isn’t already hellish in NYC and in every other major city on the planet.
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In my country, if you don’t make room for an ambulance, fire trunk, or PD vehicle in mission, you commit a crime.
A guide to sirens
- Ambulances: something bad has happened
- Fire trucks: something bad is happening
- Police: something bad is about to happen
Only you can help keep people in your community safe. Block and slow cop cars whenever possible.
In addition to the lack of siren and lights meaning they don’t get priority in this case, the important point is they can’t. The other cars have nowhere to go, no way to clear the path. I mean eventually they will, but an ambulance in this situation is delayed regardless of anyone’s best effort
That’s why dedicated lanes for buses and emergency vehicles are such a good idea. Emergency vehicles can get where they need to go, but with more people travelling by bus, there will also be less cars and less congestion. Everybody wins.
Or if nothing else, a dedicated two-way bike lane still works infinitely better than a dead stop car lane.
In my country you only need to make room when the siren is sounding and the lights are flashing.
Otherwise it’s just normal traffic, just like what seems to be happening in this picture.
Yes, and that’s what I said, in a mission.
I’ve made the mistake of driving in manhattan once, and it taught me two things. How to maneuver within gridlocked traffic, and why you take the subway in NYC.
When they want to visit NYC, my in-laws will take a train for hours to avoid driving in the city and I absolutely don’t blame them. It’s the speed of a mall parking lot on Black Friday and the same stress as highway driving. I’d much rather deal with the fairly low chance of seeing a dude whip it out on the subway.
Me too. I just went there this past weekend: hopped on Acela near my house, got off at Penn Station, walked to my hotel. No driving anywhere near Manhattan.
I am somewhat disappointed that everything was walkable this time, and I had no use for the subway. It may be loud, dirty and chaotic, but it’s functionally outstanding
What Amsterdam did for visitors to the city, is put big parking lots at the edges of the city where you can park for really cheap on condition you combine it with a public transit ticket into the city. Much better than getting stuck in traffic and paying a small fortune to park in the center of the city.
Or of course you can take a train straight into the heart of the city.
We do have a lot of park and ride situations in the us as well, although struggle to make the transit part compelling in most places.
I assume nyc has them as well but it has several extensive rail networks so you’re likely to park in your own town to ride in. For example I parked in Massachusetts, LoL
I’d much rather deal with the fairly low chance of seeing a dude whip it out on the subway.
So true. And the chance two of us whipping it out? Astronomically low!
I’m not sure about this. After driving in the DC area, it was refreshing in Manhattan to know exactly what everyone was going to do. But, you do need to be an assertive, maybe aggressive driver.
I like to use the expression “Assertive but predictable” when talking about city driving.
Billionaire Mayor Mike Bloomberg closed down a lot of streets and encouraged bike rental kiosks all over the city. He was also a fan of congestion pricing. [I’m not a fan of Mike, but credit where it’s due]
De Blasio created a system of fast ferries around the city.
Every NYC Mayor tries to improve traffic.
In carbrains… well… brains, it’s the car haters fault that traffic jams exist in the first place. YoU jUsT wOuLd NeEd To BuIld ThIs OnE aDdItIoNaL lAnE!!!
Obligatory: Just one more lane, bro
That’s part of what makes this tweet confusing to me.
If EMS response times in NYC were really hamstrung by traffic (they’re generally not, the biggest bottle neck is actually staffing) that would be an instance where the “one more lane” types would have a point.
NYC has America’s best public transit options, probably the strongest anti-congestion policy in the country, and the steepest financial penalties for driving in. But their EMS response time is like 2 minutes slower than LA which has more cars, more lanes, newer roads, and less public transit.
We do, but our busses are actually slowest in the world. So, yes and no
