Politico: NYU urban planners counter pope-visit gridlock predictions

"Despite predictions in the news media that a paroxysm of gridlock will grip New York City during Pope Francis' visit, urban planning expert Mitchell Moss is offering an alternative to "the lunatics on Fox News": We'll be fine.

"New York City will function quite well with the Pope in town," Moss, the director of the Rudin Center for Transportation at NYU's Wagner School, told POLITICO New York in an email. "NYC is not Philadelphia where they are closing interstates and towing cars already."

Moss and his colleagues Sam Levy, Jorge Hernandez, Jeff Ferzoco and Sarah M. Kaufman prepared a two-page brief with a map of the pope's itinerary and the relative severity of delays for car travel, subways, buses and bikes."

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