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Re:The Streets Were Never Free. Congestion Pricing Finally M... by JumpCrisscross on Thursday April 04, 2019 @10:49AM (#19572956)
> Too many people on sidewalks in NYC making them almost unusable

One, pedestrian congestion doesn't exhibit traffic congestion's negative externalities. (You have to get to trampling-risk densities before that occurs.)

Two, "sidewalk passes" have no precedent. Congestion pricing has lots of precedent [1].

Three, this is a problem getting attention [2]. America has spent decades throwing lanes at traffic. Not all of that was a waste. Similar effort has yet to broadly benefit pedestrians.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congestion_pricing

[2] https://www.thevillager.com/2019/04/grassroots-group-calls-f...

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Re:The Streets Were Never Free. Congestion Pricing Finally M... by kevin_thibedeau on Thursday April 04, 2019 @12:05PM (#19573931)
The area around Penn station reaches trampling risk densities five days a week.
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Re:The Streets Were Never Free. Congestion Pricing Finally M... by scrose on Thursday April 04, 2019 @01:09PM (#19574662)
Funnily enough, the area around Penn station allocates nearly 80% of the space there to cars, which carry only a tiny fraction of the people traveling through daily. For anyone not familiar with the Penn area, check out this Streetfilms video to get an idea of how lopsided the street allocation is: https://vimeo.com/268616894.
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