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Telecommuting keeps people off the streets, but downtowns are still clogged with delivery trucks.
A better idea is to use abandoned rail spurs to move goods efficiently and cleanly on maglev robotic pallets, untying urban gridlock in the process. Now, for the first time since Edison wired New York City, Gothamites have the chance to update an urban infrastructure in place since Edison's time. If New Yorkers want effective goods delivery in the Apple, fewer trucks, and a return of breathing space, we must cut the Gordian knot of urban traffic. With the sharp blade of digitization, robotics, and city smarts. Its trestle trackage circles the old 30th Street freight rail-yard to where an unused spur cuts through the Morgan General Mailing Facility.