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Re:Congestion pricing in Manhattan is a predictable success by Tiktaalik on Friday June 20, 2025 @04:07PM (#44331564)
The business owners are clueless.

Vancouver did a study of how people arrived to their shopping destination and found that a small minority drove to their destination. This was in opposition to the assertions of the business owners that claimed drivers were remarkably more dominant and parking critical.

https://slowstreets.wordpress.com/2016/10/18/new-vancouver-c...

Every time I see a study like this it is similar results where the reality doesn't match the guesses of local business.

Re:Congestion pricing in Manhattan is a predictable success by obelos on Friday June 20, 2025 @04:49PM (#44331960)
I think there's also a dominating bias that people who walk/bike/bus are poor and thus make bad customers. “If they had money, they'd be in a car!”