Fixing traffic by... discouraging people from driving, lol. Well I'm not complaining.
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Sam from Wendover did a very good job explaining why Congestion Pricing is the best solution to address this particular problem, including arguments on why this is not a regressive tax when you analyze it closely.
Canonical YouTube link so you can use your favorite Invidious/Piped instance https://youtu.be/B2j-LgcA7Gk
This is great, should be implemented in all cities. Most people who can use public transport should.
Not all cities are equal. Many have large areas with no public transportation available.
That's also very easily fixable
I get suggested to drive for 11 minutes and ALSO take a lyft if I wanted to use public transportation to get to work.
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As long as that money is spent on public transit improvements, I think it's a great idea for many large cities.
Sorry best we can do is 80% to the police department.
is spent on pubic transit
Hahahahahaha
Oh sorry, I thought you were joking. Of course they won't
is there any particular reason you’re saying that besides cynicism? I am having trouble finding specifics, but there’s a lot of reporting that the MTA is expecting to raise $15 billion from congestion tolling to fund public transportation repairs and improvements and pretty much all of the proposals for this in the past required all of the revenues to be earmarked for use by the MTA
People are so used to how bad things are they don't trust improvement, even when it's real.
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Mostly because tolls have always been a promise to improve infrastructure and then sometimes end up going to other things nobody wanted. A big one I hear about is my understanding that the NJ parkway toll promised that once the toll money made enough to pay for the highway it would be removed. Well, we all know how well that went... it's just hard to hear anything they say and not go I'll believe it when I see it.
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inb4 the supreme court rules that congestion charging is unconstitutional and furthermore that public transport, too, is unconstitutional.
"Ladies and gentleman of the committee, I put it to you: thousands, perhaps millions, of American songwriters have written about missing their truck. How many have written about missing the bus? I rest my case."
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If the founding fathers didn’t explicitly mention it in the Constitution then clearly it’s unconstitutional.
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See the Congestion Pricing Tracker for day by day measurements of the impact on congestion.
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