There’s been a lot of buzz lately about the possibility (distant and remote) of making Manhattan a pedestrian-only borough. I agree that this should absolutely happen, and that it makes no sense for people to be driving here (spare me the thing about trucks making deliveries – donkeys work well enough for many pedestrian-only villages atop mountains, and anyway, it’s too expensive to buy things in Manhattan and everyone ought to brown-bag from Brooklyn and Jersey and leave the city itself as one big sort of park, with all last-minute food needs being satisfied by cart vendors; not to mention that if the retail stores couldn’t get their shipments in, tourism would decline by half, and it’s not like anything currently for sale in NYC can’t just be bought on Amazon). And I know a brilliant way to bring this desired goal about immediately, without petitions or government action or any real process at all:
All the people of New York should just start walking in the streets en masse, so that they become utterly untraversable for vehicles. Bam! Pedestrian-only borough. And we’d all have an inch more elbow-room . . . at least until the next yearly influx of 20,000 generic white kids with new BFAs who all just know in their hearts that God intended for them to be a **STAR** arrive, and everybody goes back to stepping on each other’s heels all day.
