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cyberax on June 10, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: New York City will charge drivers going downtown

You can screw up everything if you try hard enough. LA is an example of that.

On the other hand, the Greater Houston Area has a similar population to NYC, yet it has 26-minute commutes versus 36 minutes for NYC.

nimbleplum40 on June 10, 2023 [–]

Huh? The Houston metro area has 7.5 million people. The New York City metro area has 20 million.

If you want to look at the city proper (not a great comparison since city boundaries are somewhat arbitrary) then it’s 2 million for Houston versus 8 million for NYC.

It’s not even close.

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