The streets and transportation infrastructure of New York are in need of improvement. The streets of Midtown are consistently crowded and so are the subways to and from that area of the city. I commute from Queens to Manhattan daily using the A train and I often find myself struggling to fit in the carriage during rush hours. My daily commute lacks timeliness, comfort, and sometimes, safety. When “Gridlock Sam,” presented his Move NY plan, I was amazed. The plan really seemed faster, safer, and fairer for the denizens of New York City.
Sam Schwartz’s Move NY plan is supposed to make commuting in New York faster, generate jobs to maintain infrastructure, and create new mass transit routes. Although I like the Move NY plan, I am skeptical about it’s success if it were to be carried out. I strongly believe that by the time the Move NY plan can be carried out in it’s entirety, it will no longer be the best way to control congestion in New York. Reductions in congestion on the roads or in the subways as a result of the plan can attract more people, and the mass transit systems in place are already insufficient to serve the current population. In my opinion, the infrastructure necessary to expand mass transit will take too long to build and there is simply no guarantee that mass transit services will improve. I don’t think this plan could keep up with New York and its growing population.
-Yashoma Boodhan
