Why not just run daily lottery in previous day? With non-transferable licenses to enter. Win one and you get in, don't win one and you are barred from entering?
or we can run a daily lottery and create a port of call just outside NYC for people to wait until they win the daily lottery. and administer the daily lottery. and somehow communicate daily to the winners. and really set a hard cap on entrants.
"just" does seem to apply to one of those options to me, but not the second
OCR at borders would be easy to implement. Just have a gate and diversion lines back to where car entering came from. And simple online sing-up system and rng run every night is extremely simple software project.
Or if car without daily lottery tickets enters without permission, just make it so that it is permanently forfeit and destroyed. Thus removing it's future emissions.
A) can't afford $15
B) have a car
C) need the car in Manhattan
D) can afford to wait N days to enter Manhattan
I grew up poor -- thank you FAANG, am not anymore -- but sometimes I still feel the same icky anger I used to feel when people would make abstract arguments that presumed being poor is pure destitution, just to keep things interesting for some argument.
Double checking myself, the person we're looking for:
- [works at / owns] a low margin business in downtown manhattan
- has a car
- needs their car in Manhattan
- has to take their car out of Manhattan at some point
- can afford to wait N days to enter Manhattan
Looking at that...yeah I do still think that's a null set.
If you're gesturing at the more general "it sucks people gotta pay $450/month", yeah, I can imagine this being a substantial addition to a pizza place's budget if they were relying on workers driving their own cars in from Queens.
Isn't the goal here to have less cars in the zone? Thus goal is preventing them from entering. And giving everyone equal chance to win right of entry is fairest model.