>>2004831Realized I posted the pic of the Lincoln Tunnel, but here's the Holland Tunnel.
All you had to do is look at a map to realize why theres so much traffic on Canal Street and lower Manhattan. And I'm just talking about commuters, never mind the YIMBYs who need their same day Amazon Prime deliveries, Uber/Lyfts from LES to the Knockdown Center, Doordash and Freshdirect deliveries, and the support infrastructure/network needed to enable the delivery app lifestyle.
>No places in Manhattan are reliant on commuters driving in from NJYeah because Manhattan is the only borough right? Again, it's reddit urbanists forgetting NYC consists of more than Manhattan below 96th Street and North Brooklyn. I can't go to Jersey from Queens and vice versa without having to cut through Manhattan. Every workplace in NYC has at least one (if not 1/3rd or 1/2 of) the workforce living in Jersey.
The most efficient form is a straight line. It's not doing a loop around the city. That's why the Lincoln Tunnel runs parallel to the Queens Midtown Tunnel/Queensboro Bridge and the Holland Tunnel is parallel to the Brooklyn/Manhattan Bridge and Battery Tunnel. You're moving the congestion out of Manhattan and burdening it onto the outer boroughs. But fuck those rubes in Staten Island/Brooklyn and poors in the Bronx right?
