3 ms·

> Why does living in the city make it cheaper per use? Because people living in the city pay all kinds of city taxes, none of which is paid by those who move o

> Why does living in the city make it cheaper per use? Because people living in the city pay all kinds of city taxes, none of which is paid by those who move out of the city to avoid paying them. Then, those who move out of the city end up creating all kinds of traffic problems commuting back and forth between their city-tax-avoiding homes and their city-paying jobs, or requiring local and central governments to waste huge sums of money in public transportation systems to serve them. > It'd be like having a cheaper subway ticket if your house was closer to the station. Only if your ticket was cheap to go around the corner from your home in a trip you don't need to take nor need a full blown regional-wide public transportation system to do.

Doctor_Fegg 9y ago
In practice, though, non-Londoners subsidise London transport. "IPPR North annual analysis shows Yorkshire and the Humber will get £190 per head, North East £220, North West £680 and London £1,940 per head for transport from 2016/17 onwards." (From https://www.ippr.org/news-and-media/press-releases/new-transport-figures-reveal-london-gets-1-500-per-head-more-than-the-north-but-north-west-powerhouse-catching-up https://www.ippr.org/news-and-media/press-releases/new-trans...)
- beojan 9y ago
  That doesn't mean non-Londoners subsidise London transport. You also have to look at the taxes paid by London.
  - Doctor_Fegg 9y ago
    Yes, and still London gets more than it pays: "London pays almost a third of UK tax"[1] "More than half UK investment in transport is in London"[2] 1: https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/jul/07/london-top-taxpaying-city-uk-report https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/jul/07/london-top-tax... 2: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/feb/20/more-than-half-uk-investment-in-transport-is-in-london-says-study https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/feb/20/more-than-ha...

Doctor_Fegg 9y ago

In practice, though, non-Londoners subsidise London transport. "IPPR North annual analysis shows Yorkshire and the Humber will get £190 per head, North East £220, North West £680 and London £1,940 per head for transport from 2016/17 onwards." (From https://www.ippr.org/news-and-media/press-releases/new-transport-figures-reveal-london-gets-1-500-per-head-more-than-the-north-but-north-west-powerhouse-catching-up https://www.ippr.org/news-and-media/press-releases/new-trans...)

beojan 9y ago
That doesn't mean non-Londoners subsidise London transport. You also have to look at the taxes paid by London.
- Doctor_Fegg 9y ago
  Yes, and still London gets more than it pays: "London pays almost a third of UK tax"[1] "More than half UK investment in transport is in London"[2] 1: https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/jul/07/london-top-taxpaying-city-uk-report https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/jul/07/london-top-tax... 2: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/feb/20/more-than-half-uk-investment-in-transport-is-in-london-says-study https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/feb/20/more-than-ha...