There are a multitude of options to get into Manhattan for less money than driving, and they have higher throughput.

Not many cities have 60,000 taxpayers (many in high income brackets) to be able to draw from to solve a problem by applying it to only a single street.

I used to live so close to Hoboken that I may as well have lived in it. This cannot be taken at face value as a recipe for success. Hoboken is only one square mile, and they flaunt this fact all over the city. There’s one main street that contains basically all of the city’s traffic, and they did do all the right stuff on this street, but it’s not exactly the most replicable thing for other cities to follow, given how straight forward and affordable the solution is for Hoboken and Hoboken alone.

Carmakers don’t necessarily want bigger and heavier cars; that is more material to buy.

But it’s higher margins, and they can phase out lower margin vehicles by marketing them less and producing fewer of them.