A busy Chinatown intersection where seven different streets meet would be overhauled to ease traffic and add pedestrian space under a proposal rolled out by the city transportation department Tuesday.

Currently, the pedestrians, cyclists and drivers are all forced to navigate a maze of turns at Chatham Square near the foot of the Bowery. The intersection is so confusing that the city regularly deploys traffic cops to keep cars flowing.

The DOT said it aims to reconfigure the square, which houses the Kimlau War Memorial and Lin Ze Xu Monument at the western end of East Broadway, and expand the plaza into the middle of Bowery. The redesign would convert the square from a five-point to a four-point intersection.

“I was just walking here and there’s a car coming super fast trying to turn ri

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