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The best way to get people to use public transport, is to improve public transport - cleaning it up, getting rid of the stabbings, assaults, murders, homeless p
by ejb999 3y ago
The best way to get people to use public transport, is to improve public transport - cleaning it up, getting rid of the stabbings, assaults, murders, homeless people sleeping in the subway would be a good start, not to mention the stink of urine everyplace you go.
This plan just forces the people to whom $15/day is a burden to use the available crappy public transport options and allowing the wealthy to continue to do what they have always done, unaffected by the little people - as usual.
The same thinking that is used to propose that we should ban gas stoves, but not private jets or 500' yachts.
- sealeck 3y agoWe can spend those $15 to improve public transport? > The same thinking that is used to propose that we should ban gas stoves, but not private jets or 500' yachts. I think most people who support congestion charging also support higher taxes on private jets and private yachts. Like this is the same principle...
- lotsoweiners 3y ago> We can spend those $15 to improve public transport? Good luck with that… The NYC government will want those $15 fees to keep flowing in and better public transit is a threat to that. Same reason your police department wants you to keep speeding so that they don’t lose a lucrative revenue stream.
- ejb999 3y agoand yet strangely, there are no proposals to ban private jets or yachts - but there are proposals in at least a few places to ban gas stoves and even gas lawn mowers (and to implement congestion pricing which will disproportionately affect the working class)
- CogitoCogito 3y agoDo you think banning private jets and yachts would improve traffic flow?
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> We can spend those $15 to improve public transport? The MTA, which administers our public transportation, is collecting the fee.