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Re:Congestion pricing in Manhattan is a predictable success by JumpCrisscross on Friday June 20, 2025 @06:35PM (#44332743)
> cars are extremely useful in every single city and people only choose to forgo them when the city makes them too expensive or difficult to keep and use

I happily take the train and ferry in New York over a car. For some journeys, e.g. into Long Island with a group, renting a car would actually be cheaper.

If you haven’t spent any time not driving, it’s hard to imagine the luxury going car-free brings. Not the least of which is the ridiculous amount of privacy and law-enforcement interference we tolerate for drivers.

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Re:Congestion pricing in Manhattan is a predictable success by rafram on Friday June 20, 2025 @06:47PM (#44332825)
It is genuinely such a luxury to spend zero minutes of your day looking for parking, remembering where you parked, memorizing parking regulations, planning out the parking situation around a place you might want to go… All of that feels so silly when you have to go back to it after living without a car for a while.
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