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Doesn't help if I don't get to use it..

• TulliusCicero 9y ago
  But what if you don't need to because the money goes to fund alternative methods?
  • blacksqr 9y ago
    Will those alternative methods also be congestion priced? Are you just setting up an infinite regression? If there's broad demand for increased capacity, why not just raise everybody's taxes to pay for it, and let everybody use it?
    • Nav_Panel 9y ago
      No, because the point is that cars specifically are Pretty Bad for cities (noise, air quality, inefficient use of space, dangerous) and should be discouraged (and economic incentives work). Mass transit is generally far less bad and should be encouraged by economic means. NYC sort-of does this by not using zone fares, so long trips from far-away areas (read: poor parts of the city) cost as much as a brief trip through a rich area.
    • TulliusCicero 9y ago
      Because of geometry: cars do not scale well in cities. Only so much land to go around, you want (need, really) people to use more space-efficient modes. Supporting cars is particularly expensive compared to other modes because of how much space cars take to move around and park.