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To ease congestion, increase safety, and reduce air pollution, New York City is converting some streets in the Bronx from two-way to one-way operation. This is going against the trend favored by urban planners in many places who are converting one-way street to two way in order to increase congestion and reduce safety -- based on the counterintuitive notion that more dangerous streets will encourage people to drive more safely.

For more information about the relative benefits of one-way streets, see No Two Ways About It: One-Way Streets Are Safer.