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> Let the market decide if they want cars! * Does that include carbon pricing on gas to take into account climate change externalities? * Higher health insura
by throw0101b 3y ago
> Let the market decide if they want cars!
* Does that include carbon pricing on gas to take into account climate change externalities?
* Higher health insurance premiums as a non-active transport method causes a more sedentary lifestyle?
* Distance-based and weight-based fees for damage on roads that cars do to roads (as compared bicycles, or even motorcycles)?
* Tolls on roads instead of subsidizing highway construction?
* Having the suburbs actually pay for themselves long-term, versus the current Ponzi scheme of development?
** https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/8/28/the-growth-ponzi-scheme-a-crash-course https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/8/28/the-growth-pon...
** https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/5/14/americas-growth-ponzi-scheme-md2020 https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/5/14/americas-growt...