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Images and Maps
Computer Images and Photomontages
The very best solution to the currently overcrowded sidewalks is a vastly improved pedestrian environment, coupled with a free-flowing transitway. The vitality and intensity of New York derives in large part from its very human scale of circulation and activity. People from all over the country, not to mention the world, come here to experience this and are often amazed at how much they like it. We believe this intensity should be encouraged and enhanced. The act of taking the cars out of 42nd Street would, in effect, be converting the scale of the street from the automotive, back down to human scale, and would open up tremendous new possibilities for the complete redesign of the street.
Proposed Plan and Cross Section of a Typical Block
Pairs of light rail stops would occur at each typical 800-foot avenue, resulting in twelve pairs of stops along the length of 42nd Street, plus several at the far eastern and western ends along the rivers.
Maps
The yellow and orange circles in these maps represent a 700-foot radius of immediate impact of each station.
Map A: Phase I of the #7 subway extension — would postpone a planned station at 41st Street and 10th Avenue.
Map B: Phase II of the #7 subway extension — would still not be able to serve the waterfronts or other areas in Far West and Far East Midtown.
Map C: vision42 Light Rail Plan — Initial Phase, plus a low-cost, high-capacity rail shuttle on existing LIRR tracks.
Map D: Light Rail Phase 2 — A 42nd Street/34th Street two-way link among Midtown destinations and transit nodes.
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vision42 needs your help to make our goals a reality.
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The Urban Land Institute, New York District Council, hosted a forum "Transportation Transformed: Innovations in the Tapestry of Urban Transit" on Tuesday, March 6, 2007, at 5 Times Square. Presentations were made on vision42, the High Line, the Water Taxi system, and THE (Trans-Hudson Express) Tunnel. Featured were key findings by vision42 consultants on the plan's construction costs and staging, its traffic impacts, and its projected economic and fiscal benefits of more than $1 billion annually — in large part the result of an expected increase of 35 percent more pedestrian traffic.
If you'd like to learn more about vision42, its traffic impacts, its costs, and its (tremendous) economic potential, we encourage you to familiarize yourself with the key findings of the vision42 Technical Studies, as well as the full reports - all available on this website. |
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