It’ll cost $9 each time. They’re raising money for the mass transit system by charging specifically those people who don’t use the mass transit system and that feels really unfair to me.

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    I once knew someone who commuted into NYC each day by rail – drove to the train station, and went from there. Can move out of NYC and commute in, I suppose. Housing will probably be cheaper. Was a long commute.

    that feels really unfair to me.

    Well, I mean, the real limited resource that they’re charging for is gonna be the available road space, as they’re going to be trying to reduce traffic load, I expect, as the road network is just overloaded. I don’t know if there’d be a realistic alternative to provide much more road space in Manhattan with the funds. Like, where would you put it? They’d have to bulldoze tall buildings or something.

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      People without sense want to get rid of central park, and turn all the subway lines into underground roadways.

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        At that point you might as well build another set of roads above the current street level.

        Repeat as needed.

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          Moses almost got his highway through the Empire State Building.