I would personally consider it pretty nuts to drive to work in NYC but I'm located close to the Metro North line. I found a statistics which says that the average income of a car owner in the city is $90,000. Not exactly Richie Rich.
It's not even all of NYC, it covers Manhattan below Central Park.
I don't know the transit habits of most of NYC, but I'd expect that most "common" people that work in Manhattan are taking public transit. I tried to find some statistics but the only NYC commuting data I found in my quick search explicitly did not cover Manhattan.
There's also a lot of traffic to justify this so by simple deduction there also has to be a large pile of people that do drive as their commute, but throughput is going to be the limiting factor here.
My guess? The people most affected by this won't be New Yorkers: it'll be people from New Jersey that don't have good access to public transit into Manhattan.
Fair or not it very likely will be a bit unpopular at first. Most good policies that deal with limited resources (road space in this instance) are unpopular at first. That's a natural result as they need to reapportion that limited resource in a way that results in better utilization for society and inevitably causes some people to need to change their default behaviors. Once the policy settles in it becomes popular or at least accepted.
This is a good policy that might hurt a bit in the short term but will cause less hurt in the long term if we keep it.
Other cities often exempt vehicles with two or more people from road tolls or congestion-traffic charges. When you in addition have access to car-pool and can get to work or your destination faster, thatтАЩs an inspiration тАУ and it reduces the number of vehicles on the road. Many places it doesnтАЩt take much reduction to greatly improve the traffic flow.
I know little about how NYC is considering congestion charges, but will it include such ideas?
As far as I am aware, there is no provision for car pools. There are low income exemptions (and I'm sure cops and certain other blessed city workers will be able to get around it).
I'm not an expert on NYC, live very far away, but does the "common man" drive to work if they work in NYC?
I would personally consider it pretty nuts to drive to work in NYC but I'm located close to the Metro North line. I found a statistics which says that the average income of a car owner in the city is $90,000. Not exactly Richie Rich.
It's not even all of NYC, it covers Manhattan below Central Park.
I don't know the transit habits of most of NYC, but I'd expect that most "common" people that work in Manhattan are taking public transit. I tried to find some statistics but the only NYC commuting data I found in my quick search explicitly did not cover Manhattan.
There's also a lot of traffic to justify this so by simple deduction there also has to be a large pile of people that do drive as their commute, but throughput is going to be the limiting factor here.
My guess? The people most affected by this won't be New Yorkers: it'll be people from New Jersey that don't have good access to public transit into Manhattan.
Fair or not it very likely will be a bit unpopular at first. Most good policies that deal with limited resources (road space in this instance) are unpopular at first. That's a natural result as they need to reapportion that limited resource in a way that results in better utilization for society and inevitably causes some people to need to change their default behaviors. Once the policy settles in it becomes popular or at least accepted.
This is a good policy that might hurt a bit in the short term but will cause less hurt in the long term if we keep it.
Other cities often exempt vehicles with two or more people from road tolls or congestion-traffic charges. When you in addition have access to car-pool and can get to work or your destination faster, thatтАЩs an inspiration тАУ and it reduces the number of vehicles on the road. Many places it doesnтАЩt take much reduction to greatly improve the traffic flow.
I know little about how NYC is considering congestion charges, but will it include such ideas?
As far as I am aware, there is no provision for car pools. There are low income exemptions (and I'm sure cops and certain other blessed city workers will be able to get around it).