alt Hacker News> Best they can do now is, “Well, we’re not New York"
But that's a real argument. They're not a $1.3tn economy ($1tn of which is Manhattan alone) [1] with fewer than one car per household (0.26 in Manhattan) [2].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_New_York_City
[2] https://www.hunterurban.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Car-L...
Some cities are more like New York; they’ll go first. Eventually the argument will have to be, “We’re completely unlike everywhere else in America.”