Manhattan Bars One-Occupant Cars From Congested Areas

"Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani said yesterday that the police would bar cars carrying only one person from crossing into Midtown and Lower Manhattan on weekday mornings, starting tomorrow, a response to crushing traffic jams that have spread for miles as a result of security checkpoints.The decision ? which city transportation officials had been urging the mayor to make for the last week ? was an indication of just how bad traffic across the metropolitan region has become since the attack on the World Trade Center, causing cars and trucks from gridlocked highways to spill back onto local roads as far away as Nassau County and many miles into New Jersey, long after regular rush-hour jams usually abate."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan