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Originally Posted by BrownTown
Sure there is. The lack of access to Long Island means people have to drive through NYC just to get there. This is horribly inefficient as you're sending traffic through incredibly dense areas when it would save loads of time if they could simply avoid the city. Step 1 is to triple the federal gas tax though. Its almost pointless to discuss this issue until that is done.
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Long Island is separated from the mainland by NYC. It isn't "horribly inefficient", it's literally geography.
And LI has nothing to do with what we're talking about. LI residents driving personal vehicles aren't clogging up Manhattan during M-F business hours. It's overwhelmingly delivery trucks and for-hire vehicles, and if private cars, those driven by city residents.
And no one travels from LI through Manhattan to get to the mainland (you take the Verrazano, the Throggs Neck or the Whitestone).