[throw__away7391]

You seem oblivious to the irony here—owning a car already puts you in the upper tier of wealth in the world.

Talking about Manhattan specifically, this is already about the most expensive place in the world and the only place in the US with this scheme in place, adding more traffic isn’t going to change that so no point in using it as an example of anything.

Plenty of countries that are not so car dependent have pedestrian zones in less affluent cities.

[HeyLaughingBoy]

Everything is relative. In the US there are homeless people who own cars.

[Detrytus]

In my country millions of poor people drive 18 years old cars with average resale value of 500 USD. Maybe that's still a lot compared to people who starve in Africa, but we are not in Africa.

[shipscode]

My buddy owns a car that cost $1000. That’s like 3 grocery trips.

[gafage]

>owning a car already puts you in the upper tier of wealth in the world

In the context of Greater London this is absurd.

[_Wintermute]

Car ownership is correlated with income in London. https://www.london.gov.uk/who-we-are/what-london-assembly-do...

[alexchamberlain]

Something of a Simpson's paradox there that one of the boroughs with some of the country's wealthiest households (Chelsea), maintains one of the lower levels of car ownership (35%).