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Would be nice if they made transit better first instead of making driving worse first.
by kethinov 2y ago
Would be nice if they made transit better first instead of making driving worse first.
- izacus 2y agoAnd will the drivers be prepared to fund this via another channel?
- lotsoweiners 2y agoThey already fund it via gas tax, registration fees, regular taxes. Let the public transit takers fund their own improvements.
- throw4847285 2y agoDriving in New York has been terrible for a century. The only way to make it better is to disincentivize people from doing it by making it more costly and making public transit better. Urban planners have known this is the case since at least the 40s. Congestion pricing isn't some kind of new punishment. It's a bill, long overdue, finally getting paid (and only partially).
- gcbirzan 2y agoRobert Moses knew it, but that didn't stop him.
- throw4847285 2y agoI'm not sure Robert Moses knew that. He wasn't an urban planner. He was an urban doer. He made it his life's mission to not learn the actual impact of his work on people's lives. I suspect he took that willful ignorance to his grave.
- gcbirzan 2y agoOh, no, he knew.
- throw4847285 2y agoI didn't mean it in a way that absolves him of responsibility. I mean that he purposefully shut out any information that undermined his self-image as a "great man." That's a form of evil. It's worth differentiating that from other kinds of evil, as I believe it may be the most common.