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Banning is equivalent to an infinite price. Better off setting a very high price, such that the revenue is far higher than the negative externality

• rightbyte 3y ago
  For practical reasons I guess you want to be able to move furniture etc. That is about the only time you need a motor transport in dense cities?
• HWR_14 3y ago
  Banning means you don't need to maintain the infrastructure. You can let people walk all down the street. The pavement doesn't need to withstand thousands of pounds of vehicles. And so on.
  • robben1234 3y ago
    >The pavement doesn't need to withstand thousands of pounds of vehicles. It has. It'd be illegal and extremely dangerous to design a city without properly functioning infrastructure for emergency services, garbage disposal, physically impaired accessibility. Also very inconvenient to not include commercial deliveries and public transit into that list of essential road use scenarios. Most of the vehicles performing these services are heavy. For the most part only private ICE cars are light enough to be a drop in a bucket on the road maintenance. Private EVs, and especially EV SUVs, are likely making an impact on the maintenance schedule though.