marko
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I never drove at all when I worked in midtown Manhattan. I just walked the three blocks from my house here in Connecticut to the Metro-North station, took the train in to Grand Central and then walked from there to my office every day.
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I was born and raised in Brooklyn, and I have to say that I've hardly ever seen any need to drive to anything in Manhattan. The subway system always met my needs, and I seriously doubt that I would ever have benefited from driving simply due to the extra time needed to find a parking space.
How does anyone park in Manhattan now anyway? Those who go in by car daily are not low/middle income workers, it's completely impractical even without a fee.
I grew up in Queens, lived there until I was 23, and I could count on one hand the times I drove or someone else drove me into Manhattan. It was just too much of a PITA.
Which gets back to my question of "who exactly is now going to change their ways and start using the subway to such a degree that it will notably lower congestion? "
Seems like anyone in the know already takes pubtrans out of either cost or convenience, except for the rich who black-car it in and don't care about $15. The rest have no reason to go there.
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