Streetopia: Reimagining NYC's West 72nd Street for People, Transit & Bikes

[@samuelbalto7087]

This is very exciting

[@lyssasletters3232]

Cool! Thank you for highlighting the vision work people are doing in this part of nyc!

[@alanboucek]

This is a great plan. I lived in the neighborhood a long time ago- there's no reason to give so much space to private automobiles, and I remember the lack of shade on the sidewalks.

[@revisingthescript]

This would be a fantastic change

[@RichManhattanite11]

No parking on w72!!!!! ❤❤❤❤ Jeffrey Epstein

[@tomreingold4024]

Yes indeed. I ride between Riverside Park and Central Park along 72 St. Your vision is very good. Not that it matters, but I lived on W 72 St as a kid.

[@Newyorker000]

Amen!! ❤❤❤🎉🎉

[@simon7762]

Great proposal. Hope it will become a reality

[@Jakob172]

YES YES YES !

[@C0deH0wler_]

Awesome music!

[@hans-martinadorf3834]

Great video as judged by a Europan. I would like to see a statistic showing the space required for each mover. Another interesting statistic would be the traffic flow (numbers of movers passing by at a specific point in a given time period). Two-dimensional dot-diagrams may also be informative. Keep up the good work.

[@ThreeRunHomer]

Brilliant

[@newsjunkie7135]

Omg, you're right, the street has way too many car lanes! But I'm sure one *less* lane (or two) would fix it!

[@xenalarsniewold5607]

the two way cycle track is a good idea in a park but for the street there should be a bike lane on either side. it minimizes conflict with cars and cyclists and also allows you to access businesses on both sides of the street without having to cross the road.

[@DRL1320]

Whaddaya nuts! Hochul’s never gonna let us have that! //snark/:

[@een_schildpad]

Excellent idea!! One suggestion: don't make the bike lake meander/ zig zag but instead make the car lanes do that! It acts as a "chicane" to slow driving speeds (but are very annoying and difficult on bike paths where you can have several bikes together in a group trying to navigate the swerves).

[@LimitedWard]

I like that idea! The only downside I can see is that there are features that would be nice to have on the opposite side of the bike path away from the travel lanes that likely wouldn't fit if only the car lanes meandered. You definitely wouldn't want benches between the cars and bikes, for example. But perhaps a hybrid approach could be implemented where both the bike lane and car lanes meander at certain points. That would achieve the desired slow down for cars while minimizing the amount of zig zagging required for the bike lane as much as possible. Edit: looking at it more closely, I think the design they have is the best approach. While making the car lanes meander might help to marginally improve safety, the rest of the improvements combined do more than enough. The plan also calls to ban through traffic, meaning motor vehicle access to the street would be restricted to buses and local access. Having the car lanes meander would restrict how many curbside amenities they could add. For example, the current configuration allows for loading zones on either side of the street. If the car lanes meandered then likely they could only have loading zones on one side, which means delivery personnel would need to constantly be crossing back and forth across 2 lanes of traffic with dollies full of packages. In practice, they would sooner just take the lazy approach of occupying the travel lane in the other direction, which would slow down buses and make for a dangerous situation.

[@RottenlyMoodyChild]

This is just common sense, and should not be controversial or cause a public outcry. This stats speak for themselves 25% using 88% of the space is absurd. Majority of those vehicles have 2 or less people in them. Private vehicles should never have priority over everyone else.

[@ultrahustle]

No one that lives on the UWS wants to connect Central Park to Riverside Park. You have already made CPW extremely dangerous for pedestrians to cross, by moving bike lanes to the curb. Keep bringing down the quality of living on the UWS w these great ideas.

[@TheRailLeaguer]

That’s not true, though more improvements can be done.

[@Siranoxz]

Beautifying the place only applies when the infrastructure design is perfected-mastered to the point that polishing the last touches is beautifying it..

[@arthurt2088]

Great idea! But no space left for junkies, rats and garbage :(

[@noremacmada]

72nd street, isn't that Needle Park! Seriously though throughout most of the 20th century everyone was constantly huffing lead fumes. Sound decision making is not a marker of the times