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I can see the appeal of congestion fees now that seamless tolls are so easy to collect (using RFID, License Plate Readers, etc). But apart from that, just need
by atonse 8y ago
I can see the appeal of congestion fees now that seamless tolls are so easy to collect (using RFID, License Plate Readers, etc).
But apart from that, just needlessly taxing gasoline everywhere seems silly when you're trying to just reduce congestion in cities.
- ip26 8y agoIf anything taxing gasoline favors city trips, vs highway trips.
- themagician 8y agoNot to reduce congestion. To reduce car usage so that they are only used in emergencies or situations where walking is not possible.
- karmelapple 8y agoWould people who are advocates of a “pay for what you use” system be fine with being taxed by miles driven? Have a yearly inspection of your car for both safety concerns as a variety of states do, and also record the odometer at that point. Tax miles driven, and also multiply that a lot for vehicles that directly contribute to more maintenance on the roads, like semi trucks. It will increase costs for shipping by truck, but would it also better reflect the true costs of what it costs to ship by truck, drive on highways, etc?
- atonse 8y agoAgain, as a fellow armchair policymaker, it feels like his would penalize people that earn less. In most areas, if you want a more affordable house, you go further out. So now it'd get prohibitively expensive to drive to work.
- CalRobert 8y agoBelieve it or not, it is possible to build more homes near employment centers. We don't do it precisely because homeowners bitch and moan about, you guessed it, traffic and parking. So once again cars are the problem.
- vonmoltke 8y agoHomeowners bitch and moan about a whole lot more than just traffic when it comes to building more housing. Cars are a problem, but they are far from the problem.
- adrianN 8y agoAdd in realistic parking costs. IMHO if we abolished free parking and completely moved vehicle taxes over to fuel taxes, the system would be more fair.
- kalleboo 8y agoSingapore is deploying a system of this kind, with dynamic pricing based on congestion https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/transport/ncs-mhi-to-build-islandwide-satellite-based-erp-for-556m https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/transport/ncs-mhi-to-...