Seeing Green is appalled at the proposal to turn Fifth and Seventh Avenues into one-way "Eighth Avenues." Here’s an excerpt from his blog.

Walk along Court or Smith streets in Carroll Gardens and you will
notice one salient fact: cars speeding by. The lights are timed to
allow cars to go by without stopping, and although the speed limit is
not very high, it gives the perception that cars rule. With
two lanes of traffic, cars vie for that extra car-length so they can
get faster through the area. That’s more or less the norm in most
places, even our pedestrian-friendly New York.

Contrast that with 5th and 7th Avenues a half-mile away, which are
two-way streets, 5th with bicycle lanes for much of its length. Yes,
trucks double park. Cars bunch up at the non-timed lights (you can’t
time lights in both directions, thankfully.) Yes, you have the slow
parkers and parking cruisers and the occasional SUV from hell, but
what’s different is that everybody has to go slow, exactly because it’s
not setup for free cruising.