Appellate Court decides 3/2 to allow DOT to ban vehicles on 14th Street 9/27/19

This is letter from 15th St Block Association.


Hello Neighbors. 

On Friday, the Appellate Court decided in a 3-2 vote to allow de Blasio and his Dept. of Transportation to go forward with their plans to ban cars from 14th St.   (NY POST article)  This means, W. 15th and just about every other downtown side street will be inundated with traffic starting this week. 

This is a sad time for us.  We've done everything possible to try to stop this from happening.  But the City is determined to take space away from cars and trucks and whether you believe in that ideology or not, pushing vehicular traffic off 14th St, a four lane crosstown state designated truck route, makes absolutely no sense.  And this will prove nothing.  Nobody cares how fast a bus goes as long as it's there to pick you up.  But something else is motivating this.  And it's not busses.  And that's what disturbs us more than anything because it's so clear the city is going about their business in a most catastrophic and, we'd like to add,  deadly way.  

Stay safe, Friends.  And become vigilant.  Photos and short videos will make for solid evidence.  We'll have more on that later.