Cue the jokes about how Times Square already is a mall, I suppose, but Mayor Bloomberg has a plan to shut down Broadway, between 42nd and 47th, to car traffic. Making it a pedestrian mall. (Though, cross-street traffic will continue to cut through Times Square, making it kind of a… car-y pedestrian mall.)

I, for one, am against it. It was bad enough when they took down the Cup Noodles sign. Now they want less traffic? This ain’t Europe. Times Square is about the meeting and mixing of car, pedestrian, and party bike — Goddamnit.

And, it’s about change, I suppose someone will tell me. Alas, it is. Alas, it is…