Automobile Apartheid Is Killing New Yorkers

Traffic and automobile supremacy is getting more attention in the Big Apple.

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March 4, 2004, 10:00 AM PST

New York City's Department of Transportation and its traffic engineers receive strong criticism because of insufficient use of traffic calming techniques, and too little priority to protecting pedestrians. A former official said "Guys in Lexuses stuck in traffic jams are simply more important than Mexicans crossing the street."

Thanks to Joel Hirschhorn

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