From: grammatim@verizon.net   
      
   On Thursday, March 23, 2023 at 8:23:07 AM UTC-4, Steven M. O'Neill wrote:   
   > Peter T. Daniels  wrote:    
   > >On Wednesday, March 22, 2023 at 4:02:28 PM UTC-4, Steven M. O'Neill   
   wrote:    
   > >> Popping Mad  wrote:    
   > >> >On 3/21/23 08:24, Steven M. O'Neill wrote:    
      
   > >> >> I don't own a car, but if I did, I'd gladly pay $30 a month    
   > >> >> to weed out all of the unregistered and/or uninsured vehicles    
   > >> >> competing for scarce parking spaces.    
   > >> >Maybe YOU want 30 bucks for every car parked in NYC. That mostly    
   > >> >affects poor people since wealthy people have garages... but hey... that    
   > >> >is REAL graft and I bet you can pay down your mortgage with that number    
   > >> >and move to Florida.    
   > >> Most people in NYC don't own cars.    
   > >Some years ago there were statistics -- Manhattan came out lowest    
   > >at 51%, so "most" isn't right. But overall, it's much lower than comparable    
   > >cities (which means, of course, L.A. and Chicago).   
   >   
   > "45 percent of all households in the city own a car"    
   >    
   > https://edc.nyc/article/new-yorkers-and-their-cars   
      
   It took an inordinate length of time for a data site to appear, and    
   I'd already left the newsgroup, but that was the figure it showed.    
   It may indicate the increase in population that was largely driven    
   by immigration of people who don't have cars, since the 51% I saw    
   long ago.   
      
   The same search responded much more quickly just now -- and    
   I cannot find the site that had the detailed breakdown by borough,    
   income, etc. (The link would be purple instead of blue!) It did yield    
   some headlines that car ownership soared during covid.   
      
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