It was meant, he said, to counter City Council efforts to restrict street performers downtown.
The goal is to restrict street parking for a certain time period, say two or six hours, said Donald Marra, the village administrator.
In the past two years, 21 cities have restricted street feeding of homeless people, according to the National Coalition for the Homeless.
Bus Route Changes -- Monday Aug. 30 through Thursday Sept. 2 Map of Manhattan highlighting areas around Madison Square Garden and closed or restricted streets.
One is to exact concessions, as Warren was able to do on legislation restricting Wall Street employees.
The most important part, they said, would be to control traffic by restricting many streets in Manhattan to private buses, cabs and emergency vehicles.
Or we can re-regulate firms in ways that try to even the playing field, by, say, coming up with new rules that restrict Wall Street firms.
Another common practice in many cities is to restrict on-street parking to residents or to short-term parkers by imposing a limit of, say, two hours for transients.
Another problem was that the fire, which burned for 18 days, resulted in closed off streets, restricting access to nearby buildings, which is already a serious problem in the Trade Center area.
At this time, the only police resource on the scene was busy restricting access to Chapel Street and guiding passengers towards the street corner.
