Marlen V. Ronquillo
Bill de Blasio’s New York City welcome, after his doomed presidential bid, was a court decision that sustained the car ban carried out by his city’s Department of
Transportation (DOT) on Manhattan’s busy 14th Street. De Blasio was the prime proponent of the car ban on one of the busiest streets of New York City and, probably, the entire US. Under his and the DOT’s proposal, only buses, delivery trucks and ambulances would have access to that road.Some well-heeled residents of Greenwich Village, Chelsea and Flatiron, and other neighboring communities sued the New York City government for its supposed “arbitrary and capricious action.” Cars banned from the 14th would just create “gridlocks” in other parts of Manhattan, the court case stated. The court, which probably based its decision on solid transport science, green lighted the car ban.