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Cell phone photos from a recent trip to New York City

Real time transit information!


Urban Canyon


Well designed and implemented bike lanes

New York's version of The Interchange

What a $billion/mile subway construction looks likes above ground

Please tell me something like this will be part of Target Center's renovation

Yep.

Snow


Removing cars makes Broadway so much better

Removing cars makes Broadway so much better

I could not agree more

I think the biggest surprise when I visited in 2010 was that Wall Street is a pedestrianized space. Typical photos of the NYSE building crop out most of the street.


img_2744 by Mulad, on Flickr

It's partly for security, of course. They have big bollards set into rotating platforms which can allow vehicles through as needed:


img_2755 by Mulad, on Flickr