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> Stop investing in cars. Let’s reinvest in the urban core, rollback the terrible car infrastructure that has invaded this country, and put significant federal/
by jahewson 3y ago
> Stop investing in cars. Let’s reinvest in the urban core, rollback the terrible car infrastructure that has invaded this country, and put significant federal/state/local dollars into public infrastructure and redesign of cities.
What do you want to do, demolish entire metro areas? It’s not like the suburbs are in the cities. How do you address the fact that retrofitting public transport has proven to be astronomically expensive?
- acdha 3y agoEnding the massive subsidies for cars and pollution would go a long way. Most cities have huge amounts of space dedicated to subsidized car travel and storage, simply asking drivers to pay for what they use would go a long way towards improving the balance, as would removing legal requirements for continued subsidy. In the United States, even a bar owner who doesn’t want to encourage DUIs is still usually required to subsidize driving. Much of the cost to transit and active transportation projects is often also car-related as those projects are forced into complicated engineering challenges to avoid taking any space from driving. If you want to roll out transit easily in almost any North American city, converting a single street parking lane into a dedicated bus lane is very cheap, and the revenues from less-subsidized off-street parking will pay for much of it.