Hallelujah!

DOT has agreed to close the Times Square "bow tie" making way for big pedestrian space increases in Midtown's congested heart. The "bow tie" is the segment of roadway between 42nd and 47th Streets that allows traffic to merge between 7th Avenue and Broadway...This entire middle section of Times Square will be given over to pedestrians...Only a year ago powerful people within DOT were styming the idea of closing the Times Square bow-tie. Today DOT's Commissioner is touting the change. The Times, they are a-changing.

The sooner the better.

Source: Curbed