Glad you are voicing this. What do you think about people proposing making the center / cross lanes for bus (and for dollar vans) and bikes only? And the traffic circle would still be cars?

The same could be said for 14th st and union square—a lot of low income folk in alphabet city and les who take m14 to get around because they’re so far from the train, however getting rid of cars on 14th means bus can move freely, EMS can go quickly down 14th, etc. also, you’re making a false binary. I think the very people you are advocating for need and like good public spaces to hang out in.