- Universal free transit with less crowding than today.
- 25 percent less traffic within the Manhattan business district, and 9 percent less citywide.
- More travel, not less, as growth in transit trips more than offsets the drop in auto trips.
- Huge gains in recovered productivity from saving over 100 million “vehicle hours” a year that are now wasted in traffic.
- A revenue infusion of almost half a billion dollars a year for the city’s transit system.
- Vast new public space in the heart of the city.
- Impressive environmental and health benefits stemming from decreased driving and increased walking and bicycling.
-- Charles Komanoff - plan team leader - from Downtown Express
