>>>Maybe the free-car carrot would help, though. How best to protect the public?
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>>"public" is a wide-ranging term.
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>>I grew up in Queens, NY where cars were scarce then.
>>I learned to drive in the service - I could drive a 2 1/2 ton 6X6 before I could drive a car.
>>I was taught by guys from farms in the south and mid west who drove tractors before learning to ride a bike.
>>I can only imagine the accidents that occur on those farms, that we never hear about.
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>>Queens, Brooklyn and Manhattan have solved the car problem pretty simply- either there's no parking at all or it costs more to park a car than it does to use Uber. Except for the very rich, cars have become obsolete there.
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>When I lived in White Plains, I found myself driving to Manhattan considerably less and less. I probably would have done it that way from the beginning if I had bothered to study all the subway patterns.
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>Was a heck of a lot cheaper to get to the White Plains train station (which was maybe 10 minutes from our house) and take that line into Grand Central.
You might find now that it's cheaper and more convenient to Uber to and from the White Plains station than to drive and park there.