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Re:The Streets Were Never Free. Congestion Pricing Finally M... by CydeWeys on Thursday April 04, 2019 @01:51PM (#19575141)
As a Manhattan resident, I'm paying a LOT of my tax money for the streets. And I barely get to use them, because like the majority of my fellow Manhattanites, I don't own a car.

If the public space were reconfigured to accurately reflect the taxpayer makeup, then you would see a lot less space dedicated to cars and a lot more dedicated to pedestrians, mass transit, and non-automobile transportation options like bicycles and e-scooters.

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Re:The Streets Were Never Free. Congestion Pricing Finally M... by DamnYuppie on Thursday April 04, 2019 @05:53PM (#19577472)
You do realize that most of the streets in Manhattan were laid down well in advance of the rise of automobiles. In fact they were laid out when carriage and pedestrian traffic were the only options! I believe this map is from 1821!

https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3804n.ct001389/

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Re:The Streets Were Never Free. Congestion Pricing Finally M... by atoav on Thursday April 04, 2019 @08:01PM (#19578352)
Yet in terms of space usage the streets take HP far more space for far less people.

There is necessary traffic within highly populated areas (deliveries, public transport, locals, ...) and there is totally unnecessary traffic e.g. a single person in a SUV taking up the space of half a bus or 20 pedestrians.

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