Originally Posted by Saintly Loser

I think the big problem would be in Queens. It's not so much those people who live in Queens, it's all the Long Island commuters from Nassau and Suffolk (and there are lots of them) who would drive to a point in Queens at which they could catch a subway into Manhattan. And they'd look for parking there, rather than driving all the way into Manhattan. It is, to some extent, transferring the parking problem from Manhattan to Queens. That's why I said that more municipal parking garages and lots would have to be part of a traffic-abatement program.