[chris08876]

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They need to do that in general during November and December. The area around Rockefeller Center and portions of TS become inhospitable. They've done a few closing last year around the tree, but even with that, still abysmal. On the Weekends, I think Avenue of the America's should be solely pedestrianized during the holidays. I mean they could close off TS to traffic in theory, but the congestion issue lies going cross town. They need to revamp the traffic lighting system when turning on right or even turn on left, and make pedestrians wait. Just going to cause massive gridlock if traffic flow is directed to go cross-town for certain sections of Manhattan.

Might make for a few mini Shibuya Crossing style intersections, but if they could time the pedestrian-traffic interface and optimize flow, could possibly be accomplished without gridlocking traffic.

On a side note, cross town traffic due to narrower roads is an nightmare due to double parked delivery trucks, so something also to factor. They've already chopped away big portions of TS compared to 10 years ago, but any further would seriously warrant a serious proposal on how to accommodate vehicles.