Reply #9: We'll Have To Agree To Disagree On This

[Me.]

I loathe the change to Times Square. I think it looks badly done, second rate, and the traffic snarls it has produced on other streets are a nightmare. He wanted to close off Herald Square too but the cc said no. AAA says that his plan in Time's Square has been ineffective and rated it as a minus. As for bike lanes...while in other parts of the city they are needed and much traveled here on the upper west side. specifically Columbus, they are nothing but an obstruction and have turned the avenue into 2 lanes. It would be one thing if they were used but since the time it was put in I can count om 2 hands the number of bilkers I've seen using it. Now all the traffic is cutting up the side streets to CPW and clogging them up and at times making them impassable.

The one thing I like about Bloomberg is his million trees initiative but I really didn't like the third term business. People had voted in term limits and he gamed the system for a third and then turned around and said that in the future there should be term limits.