[mwbajor]

NYC transplants always like to make this argument.

I would rather see lots of smaller cars and more ridesharing services. I think that would be even better than trains. Its my unpopular opinion but I would say in an ideal world, get rid of the trains. NYC is a perfect place to roll out a driverless car taxi service. You can make it so that you don't need to own a car but when you're traveling with people there is no argument; a car is better however you get it.

I've lived in the NYC area my whole life and somehow, its always the people that just moved here from ohio or california that come up with the half-baked traffic solutions and push them.

[nimbleplum40]

That’s not even remotely feasible. There isn’t nearly enough road space to accommodate all of the trips via train right now.

[mwbajor]

"That’s not even remotely feasible"

Strong words, how do YOU know?

Get rid of buses and trains and replace them with 3 types of vehicles, 2 person, 4 person and 8 person. Keep reserves of vehicles in the train tunnels.

How can the contributors of HN not see a perfect application for variable packet sizes?

[nimbleplum40]

Would you also ban all private automobiles? I don't know how you're going to accommodate 1.3 million _extra_ car trips per day that currently (well, pre-covid) are handled by just the Lexington Avenue line alone. That's an insane amount of traffic. Streets would be completely gridlocked.