Has the Rise of Online Shopping Made Traffic Worse?

John Benjamin Woodard recently planted himself in front of New York by Gehry, a residential building in Lower Manhattan that's one of the tallest in the world, and scouted the delivery trucks. He watched where they parked — or, more often, double-parked — and how long they stayed. He watched as pedestrians and other vehicles struggled to maneuver around them. He watched as one never moved at all.

"I'll tell you, it's there right now," Woodard says. "It's there today. It's there every day. It owns this piece of street."

The goal of Woodard's reconnaissance mission, done as part of a graduate program in urban studies at Columbia University, was to find out just what the rise of e-commerce might mean for cities in the years to come.

Source: Has the Rise of Online Shopping Made Traffic Worse? - Eric Jaffe - The Atlantic Cities

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