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To me the fact that traffic has fallen off a cliff feels like a bad sign. Congestion pricing is 9$ a day, at max ~400$ a month. Any tech employee making over 10
by sashank_1509 2y ago
To me the fact that traffic has fallen off a cliff feels like a bad sign. Congestion pricing is 9$ a day, at max ~400$ a month. Any tech employee making over 100k a year can spend this much without overthinking it. But the fact that traffic fell off a cliff means that actually the roads were used by poor people who can’t afford an additional 400$ a month and now we’ve pushed them into public transit.
- xboxnolifes 2y ago> ~400$ a month. Any tech employee making over 100k a year can spend this much without overthinking it. No way. Adding an additional $4800 a year expense is not nothing. And if you aren't at least thinking about that cost, that's crazy to me. That's a significant chunk of potential investments.
- jampekka 2y agoThat's by design and maybe why congestion pricing is so popular in places like HN. Just don't say the quiet part out loud.
- consteval 2y ago> now we’ve pushed them into public transit Right, saving them the obvious 400 dollars we tacked on, and then an additional ~15% of their gross income by not operating a car. Operating a car is unbelievably expensive. The subway is significantly cheaper, and it’s not even close.