That's why private automobile ownership is rare in places like New York or Tokyo
Thats not quite accurate here.
People in Tokyo have a car, they just dont drive it. Why? Because they are and marketeers dream. People pay over $1000.00 a year to insure a little Nissan that drives less than 3000K a year! What a bunch of bone heads!
When they do drive, its the weekend (AKA Shumatsu Driver/Weekend Driver) so, they get in the car for a trip to the beach, only everyone else thought of this, so 16,000,000 vehicles are on the expensive highway sat in 25KM long traffic jams all the way there and all the way back. Oh the joys of motoring and personal freedom