If people are driving in circles in the already-super-congested Manhattan traffic instead of going somewhere and parking, then yes, they shouldn’t be doing that.
This might surprise you but people who have lots of money still generally like to save money when they can. If mass transit is appealing enough people won’t want to spend a lot of money to avoid it.
I don’t know what gives you the idea that poor people can afford to drive in New York City in the first place. Do you have any idea how expensive parking is?
Congrats. Make it so poor people can’t afford to drive, so public transport becomes “only for poors” and never gets the funding it needs.
That’s not who is objecting; you can’t afford to park on lower Manhattan if you’re poor.
The proposal was to charge a fee for entering a zone in Manhattan, not parking.
If people are driving in circles in the already-super-congested Manhattan traffic instead of going somewhere and parking, then yes, they shouldn’t be doing that.
This might surprise you but people who have lots of money still generally like to save money when they can. If mass transit is appealing enough people won’t want to spend a lot of money to avoid it.
And in the process, you’ve now kicked the poors off the road.
I don’t know what gives you the idea that poor people can afford to drive in New York City in the first place. Do you have any idea how expensive parking is?
That’s fair. I suppose I was criticizing the concept more generally, not solely with NYC in mind.