There are not enough roads in the city on NYE for everyone who'd want a private car. More medallions are not going to solve this class of "spiky demand" problem

There are not enough roads in the city on NYE for everyone who'd want a private car. More medallions are not going to solve this class of "spiky demand" problems. In Brisbane city on NYE, the public bus service was free after 9pm. There were a lot of road closures and people who wanted to travel to the city used public transport. I had my first bus trip of 2011 on NYE, and it was quick, because there weren't many cars on the road.