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Genuine answer as a former New Yorker: No. You can get in and out more easily by transit than by car already. It's a luxury. Driving in Manhattan is already expensive many ways anyhow

- bridge/tunnel tolls to enter any way other than from the Bronx along slow inconvenient local streets

- parking costs a lot of money, or a lot of time and hassle (and in fact is prohibitive, like as in you won't find free parking even after circling for an hour, in much of manhattan for much of the day)

- if you're an average american driver from the suburbs or further afield, who is not used to big city driving, you will probably find it very stressful until you practice a lot

- opportunity cost: transit is already great, so there's no compelling reason usually



Agree with everything you said except "transit is already great". Subway could be greatly improved, and taxing congestion is one way to address that.


Yeah, true, great is too strong a word.

But, it is great _compared_ to driving, in terms of point A to point B on time performance, other than very late at night, which is the only time you can get around faster in a car (but will likely still struggle with parking)




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