Back in January, the New York Times published an article claiming that New York City has become “the city that never walks.”
The writer, one Robert Sullivan claims to have “spent two years researching roads and transportation across the United States.” Yet somehow he has come to the conclusion that New York is no longer a pedestrian city.
The city that never walks? Flickr photo by Geff Rossi.
Sullivan thinks that New York should emulate, of all places, Albuquerque and Grand Rapids. He likes Albuquerque because they recently made their downtown more “pedestrian friendly” by converting one-way streets to two way. He likes Grand Rapids because they recently built a “new bus plaza that is part of a mass transit renaissance” (discussed here last week).
