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How does supporting driving by subsidizing it help those people over spending the funds on, eg, public transit or denser housing in urban cores? It sounds like
by SomeStupidPoint 10y ago
How does supporting driving by subsidizing it help those people over spending the funds on, eg, public transit or denser housing in urban cores?
It sounds like it just increases their health risks and lowers the quality of their landscapes over those other options.
- closeparen 10y agoIn principle, if you can make a 1:1 atomic swap between driving subsidies and a Manhattan-level subway system, you should do it. In practice, I think you're likely to eliminate people's current perfectly good option just to lift public transit from abysmal to mediocre. It would depend on the proposal.
- gpawl 10y agoNo one has a perfectly good option today. They have a pollution-choked, collision-prone, 20%-workday-wasting commute.
- robertlagrant 10y agoThis is exactly it - people are so used to thousands of road deaths a year, funding unpleasant oil-supplying regimes, polluting their neighbourhoods and traffic that they don't realise they are avoidable. As mentioned before, it's a lack of imagination.