Manhattan has plenty of bridge circuit — they’re its most recognisable landmarks , really — but on the button how many more would it need if every last person drive a car?Matt Taylor , a transit engineer , has seen this bizarro - Manhattan , andit ’s not pretty .
Taylor take it upon himself to reckon precisely how many more bridges we ’d need it everyone had a car . “ 2,060,000 people ask to enter and perish Manhattan around the same prison term each twenty-four hour period , ” he writes ina blog post , make believe allowances for the holidaymaker , students , and even hospital patients that come up in and out of the city every day . powerful now , he continues , just 16 percentage of those the great unwashed enter the island via car .
Which means that the volume of motorcar traffic in Manhattan would increase by an vast amount — so much so that there would n’t be time to do much except parkway :
This berth would be problematic because it allow for less than no metre for other activities . so as to make this scenario affair we will assume enough electrical capacity is ask for all vehicle to enter Manhattan within a 4 60 minutes AM peak menstruum and departure within a 4 hour PM peak menses . This would require 380 additional traffic lane , a 280 % increment , which could be bring home the bacon by 48 raw 8 - lane crossings .
So there you have it : 48 new bridges , each with eight lanes of dealings . And do n’t even get Taylor started on the parking : It would take two underground garage literally the size of it of Manhattan to house all those railroad car .
Next meter you ’re take onto a stinky train adhere on the Williamsburg Bridge at rush hour , be thankful you ’re not spending most of your day trap in a city - sized parking service department instead . [ Matt Taylor ; h / tUntapped Cities ]
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