Comments on: Walking the Walk in Times Square http://www.greatergotham.com/blog/walking-the-walk-in-times-square/ Out and about in New York City . . . and beyond. Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:31:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Deborah http://www.greatergotham.com/blog/walking-the-walk-in-times-square/comment-page-1/#comment-5294 Deborah Tue, 26 May 2009 16:15:37 +0000 http://www.greatergotham.com/blog/?p=393#comment-5294 I think you're right - and it really is just a question of people getting used to it. Hopefully the city will stand firm. On a semi-related note: A friend of mine mentioned that she was on a bus two days before - on a route that went through the area and as of that day, the MTA hadn't told the bus drivers about the upcoming changes. I imagine chaos reigned at the beginning of Sunday's shifts. Typical MTA delay in coping... I think you’re right – and it really is just a question of people getting used to it. Hopefully the city will stand firm.

On a semi-related note: A friend of mine mentioned that she was on a bus two days before – on a route that went through the area and as of that day, the MTA hadn’t told the bus drivers about the upcoming changes. I imagine chaos reigned at the beginning of Sunday’s shifts. Typical MTA delay in coping…

]]> By: Catherine http://www.greatergotham.com/blog/walking-the-walk-in-times-square/comment-page-1/#comment-5292 Catherine Tue, 26 May 2009 14:57:56 +0000 http://www.greatergotham.com/blog/?p=393#comment-5292 I think I'm for this; yes, it may take awhile to get traffic patterns rerouted successfully but traffic was always so congested there anyway. (If I wasn't paying attention and a taxi took me that way, it was inevitably hellish.) I can't imagine wanting to linger in that area, but for all the tourists who *do* (and for Hell's Kitchen residents who are underserved with parks), it seems a good idea. I think I’m for this; yes, it may take awhile to get traffic patterns rerouted successfully but traffic was always so congested there anyway. (If I wasn’t paying attention and a taxi took me that way, it was inevitably hellish.) I can’t imagine wanting to linger in that area, but for all the tourists who *do* (and for Hell’s Kitchen residents who are underserved with parks), it seems a good idea.

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