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The key to congestion pricing is to simultaneously increase your alternatives. If you're not killing off public parking, improving bus & bike lanes, or general
by crowbahr 5y ago
The key to congestion pricing is to simultaneously increase your alternatives.
If you're not killing off public parking, improving bus & bike lanes, or generally improving mobility citywide then you're just dinging drivers who have no choice.
The goal of a congestion tax is to reduce congestion. That doesn't work if there's no other option.
- jsjsbdkj 5y agoYeah I'm conflicted on the value of congestion pricing (which feels like a regressive tax on people who don't have the flexibiltiy to bike to work or live in a city center) versus pedestrianizing streets, increasing public transit, etc. to reverse induced demand. If we keep throwing money at giving more space to cars, people will keep choosing cars, and the cycle continues.