Is there a more permanent solution to Manhattan's traffic nightmare? When Mayor Robert Wagner banned nonessential traffic during last winter's crippling blizzard, a euphoria unequaled since the day Prohibition ended took hold of the city. People puffed happily up and down Broadway, jaywalked in Times Square, reveled in the unaccustomed silence.
Writing in the quarterly Dissent, Author-Sociologist Paul Goodman and his brother. Architect Percival Goodman, propose that the euphoria be made permanent: ban all cars from the island except buses, small taxis, vehicles for essential services, and light trucking. The city could...
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