New York City Groups Seek to Cut Traffic Congestion

eighborhood business groups in New York City have asked Mayor Michael Bloomberg to do more to relieve congestion on city streets, the New York Times reported Thursday.

The groups, representing property owners in three city boroughs, sent a letter criticizing what they termed “piecemeal” efforts to trim traffic congestion, and that commerce and commercial traffic would flow better with fewer personal cars on the streets, the Times reported.

The letter was accompanied by an advance copy of a study set to be released Thursday that concludes that private cars far outnumber buses, trucks and commercial vehicles in New York, the paper said.