Weighing in as a Manhatto who works in midtown -- I welcome this! But another fruitful option is curbing the very worst behavior attendant to driving. Blocking

Weighing in as a Manhatto who works in midtown -- I welcome this! But another fruitful option is curbing the very worst behavior attendant to driving. Blocking the box -- apparently being policed heavily in Queens! [0] -- is typically addressed (near times square) by having traffic cops in the streets guiding traffic. How about tickets that scale up by orders of magnitude for each repeat offense, i.e. $1 for the first offense and $10K for the fifth and after that you lose your license? The next thing I'd want to tackle is rampant honking. Not sure how to police this but it should probably cost $10 per second that your horn is making noise. that seems to me like a fair pricing of the externalities produced. And if you're honking to save someone's life i.e. if they're walking into traffic while looking at their cell phone -- ok that's a tough one. [0] http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2017/09/21/ridgewood-ticket-trap/ http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2017/09/21/ridgewood-ticket-trap...