IKEA is going to need a lot of free tee shirts to combat the wave of bad press they might be facing, if today’s item in the Daily News is any indication of what the next month will be like. A new study (which follows one completed by ‘Gridlock Sam’ Schwartz that put the potential impact at 14,000 cars daily) predicts upward of 20,000 cars daily, considerably more that IKEA projects. Schwartz was dismissive about the methodlogy, but even at his lower number (still ten times the number of parking spaces in the current plan) concludes that the project is ill-advised. We are a little skeptical too, since much of this traffic will be on weekends, and we happen to know that such a number is impossible, if only because every vehicle on the eastern seaboard is otherwise occupied right in front of our apartment, trying to get at the Holland Tunnel.
Given the recent Yankees expansion proposal, the fiasco that is the Jets Stadium (ooh, the ‘Multi Modal Convention and Entertainment Center, or whatever the hell they are calling it), it would seem that we doomed to repeat the errors of planning large for large’s sake, as documented yesterday in the Times.
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But they might buy the naming rights to the Gowanus — Stillenkarre, perhaps?
IKEA is going to need a lot of free tee shirts to combat the wave of bad press they might be facing, if today’s item in the Daily News is any indication of what the next month will be like. A new study (which follows one completed by ‘Gridlock Sam’ Schwartz that put the potential impact at 14,000 cars daily) predicts upward of 20,000 cars daily, considerably more that IKEA projects. Schwartz was dismissive about the methodlogy, but even at his lower number (still ten times the number of parking spaces in the current plan) concludes that the project is ill-advised. We are a little skeptical too, since much of this traffic will be on weekends, and we happen to know that such a number is impossible, if only because every vehicle on the eastern seaboard is otherwise occupied right in front of our apartment, trying to get at the Holland Tunnel.
Given the recent Yankees expansion proposal, the fiasco that is the Jets Stadium (ooh, the ‘Multi Modal Convention and Entertainment Center, or whatever the hell they are calling it), it would seem that we doomed to repeat the errors of planning large for large’s sake, as documented yesterday in the Times.