Broadway Closed to Traffic

Broadway slices across Manhattan in a great big long diagonal slash from north to south. As it cuts across the otherwise orderly grid of avenues and cross streets, interesting intersections are created... and, it seems, weird traffic snarl-ups.

So now portions of Broadway, one of New York City's busiest streets (arguably its most famous, though perhaps Wall Street is known better, certainly hated more) will be closed to traffic in a radical new attempt to fix some of the traffic flow. There are additional benefits as well — see graphic above.

The traffic-free sections are at Times Square (the area created by Broadway cutting across Seventh Avenue) and Herald Square (Broadway cuts across Sixth Avenue).