Others have said it would hurt businesses in the congestion zone. The report, however, says pedestrian activity inside the zone was up 8.4% in May, compared with the same period last year, while outside the zone only saw an increase of 2.7%.
The same can be seen in Paris: Reducing car traffic is good for businesses and shops. The whole discussion on cars in cities reminds the discussion on smoking in public spaces. The only interest group which actually had an advantage from it was the tabacco industry.
These numbers can’t be used to make the assessment you’re making. You need to know the relative proportion of pedestrians vs. drivers. If there are 10x pedestrians then the 6% increase would be far more people. Also, pedestrians and drivers don’t spend money in the same proportions or ways.
I’m guessing there is data on small business activity we could look at, although you would need to compare to neighboring districts to account for a cooling economy.
You would assume wrong. The vast majority of customer traffic in the zone is not by vehicle. So even if car customer traffic dropped to literally 0% the business would still retain pretty much all of their customer traffic.
The main business concerns are regarding deliveries, not customers coming in cars to manhattan lol.
The same can be seen in Paris: Reducing car traffic is good for businesses and shops. The whole discussion on cars in cities reminds the discussion on smoking in public spaces. The only interest group which actually had an advantage from it was the tabacco industry.
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These numbers can’t be used to make the assessment you’re making. You need to know the relative proportion of pedestrians vs. drivers. If there are 10x pedestrians then the 6% increase would be far more people. Also, pedestrians and drivers don’t spend money in the same proportions or ways.
I’m guessing there is data on small business activity we could look at, although you would need to compare to neighboring districts to account for a cooling economy.
You would assume wrong. The vast majority of customer traffic in the zone is not by vehicle. So even if car customer traffic dropped to literally 0% the business would still retain pretty much all of their customer traffic.
The main business concerns are regarding deliveries, not customers coming in cars to manhattan lol.
Seems to me you’re taking an awfully big leap in that second paragraph there.