Poor people can't afford cars (and certainly can't afford parking in Manhattan). Taking cars off the streets will make the buses faster and benefit the poor the most. The richest will keep using cars but they would have found a way to do that anyway (e.g. in cities that limit who can drive on which day by numberplate, you get rich people buying two cars) - at least this way they're paying directly for road use.
NYC across all of the boroughs has a car ownership rate around 45%. Being able to point to one poor person with a car who lives in NYC (probably in their car) doesn't make it a common occurrence or statistically significant. Also poor relative to what?
I've lived in NYC as well as upstate NY and I can tell you for a fact that my friends with cars in university statistically speaking were from Long Island. Total anecdata, but you can look at the actual demographics of who owns private vehicles in NYC and what economic class they belong to. It sounds like the results may surprise you!
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Poor people can't afford cars (and certainly can't afford parking in Manhattan). Taking cars off the streets will make the buses faster and benefit the poor the most. The richest will keep using cars but they would have found a way to do that anyway (e.g. in cities that limit who can drive on which day by numberplate, you get rich people buying two cars) - at least this way they're paying directly for road use.
Are you guys living in NYC ?! …there is plenty of poverty in Manhattan and poor people with cars who use them to travel…
NYC across all of the boroughs has a car ownership rate around 45%. Being able to point to one poor person with a car who lives in NYC (probably in their car) doesn't make it a common occurrence or statistically significant. Also poor relative to what?
I've lived in NYC as well as upstate NY and I can tell you for a fact that my friends with cars in university statistically speaking were from Long Island. Total anecdata, but you can look at the actual demographics of who owns private vehicles in NYC and what economic class they belong to. It sounds like the results may surprise you!