NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- The 14th Street Busway -- a plan to allow the city to partially ban cars on 14th Street from Third to Ninth Avenues -- was supposed to go into effect Monday.
But now, that plan is on hold, after an appellate court ruled in favor of groups seeking to quash it.
The decision didn't sit well with the Riders Alliance, whose policy and communications director Danny Pearlstein said, "For every day that the 14th Street busway is on hold, M14 rush hour commuters lose two weeks worth of time that they will never recover. Time wasted stuck behind cars in stalled traffic is time away from family, friends, work, and New York's civic life."
He added, "The irreparable harm to tens of thousands of transit riders that comes of obstructing badly needed bus service improvements mounts with every single day of self-serving litigation from wealthy and powerful precincts surrounding 14th Street."