File Under "Duh."

They say nothing gets by New Yorkers. They would be wrong.

But most of the people interviewed whose business takes them into Manhattan every day found the notion appalling. Some even said they would sooner switch to mass transit than pay the fee.

“That could change my commute,” said Dennis Alicea, a banker getting coffee at an Exxon-Dunkin Donuts complex near his home in Bayside, Queens. “I would probably have to take the L.I.R.R. and the express bus.”

Note to Dennis: changing your commute, specifically to one via mass transit, is precisely the idea.

Now if we could just get congestion pricing for tourists.