‘Notorious’ Port Authority Bus Terminal May Get a $10 Billion Overhaul
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/21/nyregion/port-authority-bus-terminal.html
Electric buses must be mandatory to reduce the greatly harmful pollution around the station,n from the Lincoln Tunnel and avenues and streets nearby. Electric taxis and hire cars too.
This could lead the way to electrifying all traffic in polluted mid-town and, with the stars aligning, the entire island, then on to the boroughs.
Clouds of toxic fumes over the 5 boroughs from fuel-guzzling cars, trucks, cycles, many coming from outside the city, and overhead from aircraft, has to be a short- and long-term goal for health, safety and welfare of the dense-packed inhabitants.
At risk of angering the real estate industry, this air cleansing should be accompanied by downsizing the high rises and supertalls and not least the jammed together row houses, mid-rises, weirdly shaped vanity piles of bloated museums, hospitals, universities, mostly empty condos for offshore hidden identity investors and periodic celebrities washing their moola with residential tax write-offs.
To be sure, there are contradictions between the hi-rise development the bus station needs to fund its resuscitation, but perhaps the virus calamity has taught a tough lesson is lowering architectural exploitation of the planning swamp of perfidious New Albion. Just joking, of course, the RE alligators will come slithering at anyone dare suggesting the golden calf be miniaturized to be less inviting to tiny germs paddling along in our compacted sidewalk bloodstreams.