July 6, 2023 - From Manhatten to San Francisco, urban downtown cores are encouraging business improvement districts (BID) to embrace bike lanes and pedestrian-friendly infrastructure vs prioritizing cars reports Bloomberg City Lab.
As commercial districts continue to reel from the rise of remote work, and the ongoing effects of the Covid pandemic, new concepts such as Broadway Vision, a plan by New York City Mayor Eric Adams, to transform the famous corridor with bike lanes, low-traffic shared streets and plazas closed to cars, are part of a new “culture shift” says Adams.
Many BIDs now bang the gong for bike lanes, car bans and pedestrian-friendly infrastructure, but at the same time, critics say these groups exert too much influence over public space.
Read John Surico’s report in Bloomberg City Lab here.
