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Rather than try to put in barriers for driving, make it faster and easier to drive. Build bigger highways and make more parking available to employees. The bigg
by sys_64738 7y ago
Rather than try to put in barriers for driving, make it faster and easier to drive. Build bigger highways and make more parking available to employees. The biggest polluters are not the cars but the petroleum companies who pollute the atmosphere. Want to save the environment then stop with daft plastic straws banning as that might be the low hanging fruit but it ain't the core problem.
- yohannparis 7y agoGreat idea! But make the users bare the cost. I do not want to pay for other users' parking and highways. End all subsidies to all transportation modes, or being transparent about the political goals.
- kqr 7y agoRight on! History has shown time and time again that building larger roads makes these roads less congested. See also "one more lane will fix it" : https://mobile.twitter.com/urbanthoughts11/status/1191295205187686400 https://mobile.twitter.com/urbanthoughts11/status/1191295205...
- zootam 7y ago>but it ain't the core problem What do you consider to be the core problem? I think the root cause is expensive housing. Increasing throughput on the highways often only lets more people get to the same bottleneck in the same time. To actually alleviate that problem, the throughput of any bottlenecks would need to increase as well. Usually, that's in a highly desirable and expensive area. Destroying much of the highly desirable and expensive area and covering it with highways and parking lots is one way to solve the problem, but is obviously a terrible idea.