To the Editor: I hope that the New York City Council's antismoking legislation passes because then I'll have grounds for a lawsuit to ban automobiles in New York City.

They're banning automobiles some days of the week.

He had supposed that the proposal to ban automobiles in the state by 1985 would only result in an accelerated flow--a kind of hoarding--but the current figures suggested that state officials had found a way to discourage hoarding and depress the market at the same time.

Planning efforts are currently underway to ban private automobiles from Market Street altogether between Franklin and Steuart Streets, in order to provide a better environment for transit, cyclists, and pedestrians.

We could eliminate that horrific cost overnight by banning automobiles, or requiring every car to have the safety features of a tank, or mandating that cars be designed to travel no faster than five miles an hour.

Mr. Giuliani said he favored measures other than banning automobiles.

Columbia, which bans automobiles from its streets, looks like every town that has ever appeared in a Western movie, except the buildings are the real thing.

Franklin K. Lane, the new United States Secretary of the Interior, rescinded an order that had banned automobiles from entering Yosemite National Park and other parks, increasing the tourism in those areas.

"Defining motor vehicle casualties as a public health issue and initiating intervention activity," they argue, "succeeded in reversing the upward trend of such fatalities, without banning or confiscating automobiles."

I only want to talk about important things-a decent wage for hard work as well as for skilled work, getting the criminals off the street, banning automobiles from Manhattan.