Leading Lame Duck Indicators: Fewer Pedestrian Plazas

Leading Lame Duck Indicators, the leading indicators that foretell the moment when the mayor officially — and finally — becomes a lame duck, include shelved plans for pedestrian plazas:

In an abrupt concession to community complaints, the Bloomberg administration said Wednesday that it would scrap a plan for a pedestrian plaza on 34th Street in Manhattan that would have banned automobile traffic on the block between Herald Square and the Empire State Building.