Comment by meagher
19 hours ago
> not sure why you think waymo would fight against that
If you were to pedestrianize 10% of Manhattan (or for example all of Broadway, which is being considered), then that’s less area for Waymo to operate and make money. To be clear, this is likely more of a long term issue.
They will probably gain way more by the removal of parking lots that comes with it than by losing rides to pedestrian traffic or bikes.
> will probably gain way more by the removal of parking lots
Or remove street-side parking.
NYC doesn’t have a lot of surface parking lots.
It had a lot of on street parking, at least mid town did, when I lived there in 2000 (which admittedly was 25 years ago). It was good enough that my gf at the time was driving from a Columbia dorm to IBM hawthorn.