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Personally I think tolls will become more and more common, both to capture revenue from electric vehicles and to fight congestion. The tolls will likely make pu
by Zach_the_Lizard 11y ago
Personally I think tolls will become more and more common, both to capture revenue from electric vehicles and to fight congestion. The tolls will likely make public transit much more cost competitive, so it'll be interesting to see this play out.
- gohrt 11y agoA far simpler way to make transit cost competitive, for now, is to make transit nearly free, subsidized by existing road users (externality tax for the pollution/noise/etc), instead of making it fund itself.
- superuser2 11y agoFare collection infrastructure is shockingly expensive (it is municipal government IT, after all) and prolongs bus loading times, requiring more equipment/fuel/labor to deliver the same service. Fare collection usually fails to recapture its own cost, or does so just barely. By some estimates, eliminating fare collection would actually consume less tax revenue, not more.
- alasdair_ 11y agoIn London (and Seattle) the busses are free to ride in busy locations for this exact reason.