• Make all the major crosstown thoroughfares (Canal, Houston, 14th Street, 23rd Street, 34th Street, 42nd Street, 57th Street, 72nd Street, 79th Street, 86th Street, 96th Street, 106th Street, 116th Street, 125th Street, 145th Street, 181st Street, and finally, Dyckman Street) accessible to pedestrians, bicycles and buses (BRT) only.
• Do the same for every third or fourth avenue (First Avenue, Lexington Avenue, Fifth Avenue, Broadway, Ninth Avenue).
• Make all deliveries requiring trucks larger than a van take place between 6PM and 6AM.
• Do the same for major thoroughfares in Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and the Bronx.
• Establish a dedicated force of 2,500 police to enforce the traffic laws, dedicate half of the increased fines collected to mass transit; the other half would pay for the increased enforcement.
• Eliminate at least half of the parking placards now in circulation.
• Double the parking tax; dedicate the increased revenues to mass transit.
• Triple the street parking fees; dedicate the increased revenues to mass transit.
• Impose a $1,000 per year tax surcharge on passenger vehicles registered within the city that get less than 25 mpg/city.
• Eliminate city sales tax on bicycles and bike equipment.
• Make the fine for traveling over 30mph in the city $20.00 for every mile per hour above 30—and strictly enforce it.
• Ban "schooling" behavior of cabs—hundreds at a time travel up Church/Sixth Ave en masse or down Columbus while people elsewhere can't find one. Cabbies income would rise, streets would be calmed.
• Get the cross-harbor tunnel built—we've been waiting since 1915!
And there's so much more that can be done—please post your ideas!
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