End of road for Central Park cars

MOTORISTS’ DAYS driving through Central Park are numbered.

The city is banishing traffic from Central Park on June 27.

Mayor de Blasio joined with New York Road Runners to announce the ban on cars in Central Park, an effort that dates back to the John Lindsay administration in the 1960s.

“This park was not built for automobiles,” de Blasio said. “Literally, it was built before there were automobiles. It was built for people.”

De Blasio made his announcement on the the eve of Earth Day — a holiday the mayor, who gets who gets chauffeured from Gracie Mansion to a Brooklyn gym, noted calls on people “to live differently” to fight climate change.

At the peak hour, about 850 cars roll through the Central Park “loop drives” that’ll soon be car free. Cars will still be able to use the traverse roads across 96th St., 86th St., 79th St. and 65th St.

The city also kicked cars out of Prospect Park this year. “We really haven't heard many complaints in Prospect Park,” said Department of Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg. “People, it took them about a month and they adjusted.”