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New York becomes first US city with congestion charge
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Personally I dont understand why they dont just remove all the street parking spots.
That and establish maximum parking spots per building. Building has legal occupancy for 2000 people? Max 1% parking spots means theyre not allowed to have more than 20 car parking spots for the entire building.
The point is to make cars the slowest, most expense, and most difficult mode of transport. Make it hell so that nobody would want to drive a car there because its miserable.
There are a lot of two fare zones in the city limits. I understand the desire some people have to turn nyc into big amsterdam, but nyc is substantially larger than that city with substanitally less interconectedness. Hell, Holland is a country barely bigger than the NYC metropolitan area.
If people had good reliable transit available, they would use it. The reality is that they do not. People who think nyc does either are not from there, or live in the privilged part that has tons of transit options.
You cant force people, you have to offer better options. I agree, if cars were the slowest option people wouldnt use them. Guess what? They arent. Three bus transfers are. This is ignoring anyone who needs to travel outaide of the city limits as well.
I have to nitpick slightly; Holland is not a country. Amsterdam is in the North Holland province of the Netherlands.
Source: I'm on the train from Amsterdam to my home in Nijmegen, Netherlands, which is not a part of either Holland.
NYC has great transit. Are you from Staten Island or what?
Both are true. Manhattan has great transit. But NYC is big. https://www.nyctransitforums.com/topic/31326-which-outer-borough-has-the-best-coverage/
You're the one who doesn't sound like a NYer
Isn't Manhattan where the congestion charge applies...?
I am a NYer
Great comeback 👏
I dont do insults. I was stating a fact.
I was mainly pointing out that many regions in the outer nyc don't have good transit options. That's fact, which you did not acknowledge. I don't care if you're in NY or not, stop moving tjr goalposts and acknowledge you are dead wrong about transit
You've described the opposite of how the US likes to do things
Last year I lived in an apartment who had about 40 parking spaces, 2 for each of 20 units. This complex was in a highrise which had around 80 vacant units, but due to minimum parking availability laws in my area they had to leave most units vacant.
My city is (obviously) plagued with an unhousing epidemic as the artificial restrictions like this (the landlord problem too 🙄) continue to drive property prices up (my unit was a 400sqft studio for $1.2k after fees, that's $3 a square foot in a nation where $1/sqft is standard).
Fortunately NYC is more progressive than most US cities
That would invovle upgrading the subway to actually handle capacity along with a circular route, but that is currently beyond the capability of any American public transport development lol.
Yes. Leave the big old parking lots outside of the key areas. Even when you drive into these areas you are either extremely lucky to find a spot or you drive around forever before you get one.