3 ms·
Let’s start with employee plans can allocate several hundred dollars pre-tax to parking but very limited amounts to subway and train. You can also argue that h
by donohoe 7y ago
Let’s start with employee plans can allocate several hundred dollars pre-tax to parking but very limited amounts to subway and train.
You can also argue that huge amounts of free street parking are subsidies, but limited areas to chain bikes.
There is more, but those are the obvious ones to me.
- NovemberWhiskey 7y agoPre-tax transport benefit plans at the federal level have had equivalent transit/parking amounts since 2016; not that the city has much control over that. NYC's own pre-tax program explicitly doesn't include parking. It's also probably worth mentioning that the city has a tax on off-street parking at 18.375% in Manhattan.
- baroffoos 7y agoDriving is also heavily subsidized by the fact that much of the cost of driving is externalized. When someone drives the fumes coming out of their car damage the health of everyone around them, that cost is paid for by everyone and not just the person driving so there is very little incentive to stop doing it.
- dsfyu404ed 7y agoIf you want to talk externalities then stress, frustration and mental health need to be taken into account on the public transit side of the equation. I'd put up with a hell of a lot of air pollution if it made the trains timely and not crowded and I'm not the only one who'd make that tradeoff.
- tty2300 7y agoStress, frustration and mental health are costs I have only ever experienced in a car. Riding my bike to work was one of the best things I ever did for my mental and physical health.