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Re:New York City will charge drivers going downtown. Other c... by paulgb on Saturday June 10, 2023 @04:19PM (#36274667)
I’m suspicious of that. LA is famous for low use of transit (relative to population) and is also famous for having bad congestion.
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Re:New York City will charge drivers going downtown. Other c... by cyberax on Saturday June 10, 2023 @06:54PM (#36276114)
You can screw up everything if you try hard enough. LA is an example of that.

On the other hand, the Greater Houston Area has a similar population to NYC, yet it has 26-minute commutes versus 36 minutes for NYC.

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Re:New York City will charge drivers going downtown. Other c... by nimbleplum40 on Saturday June 10, 2023 @07:17PM (#36276300)
Huh? The Houston metro area has 7.5 million people. The New York City metro area has 20 million.

If you want to look at the city proper (not a great comparison since city boundaries are somewhat arbitrary) then it’s 2 million for Houston versus 8 million for NYC.

It’s not even close.

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