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Re:New York City will charge drivers going downtown. Other c... by lr4444lr on Saturday June 10, 2023 @07:15PM (#36276285)
A substantial majority of outer borough households own a car compared to much wealthier median income non car owning Manhattanites. It is regressive.
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Re:New York City will charge drivers going downtown. Other c... by polygamous_bat on Saturday June 10, 2023 @09:19PM (#36277008)
It's because the public transit in outer boroughs tends to be much worse.
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Re:New York City will charge drivers going downtown. Other c... by steveBK123 on Saturday June 10, 2023 @11:17PM (#36277661)
Yes, and that's sort of the point. We have become unable to build transit infrastructure due to cost disease.

Making it worse for cars in the short term without any concept of how we will make transit better is not great.

Sure we're going to collect money.. estimated at $1B/year, and then what? More $3B/mile boondoggles? Maybe we'll have a new subway line funded by the year 2100.

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