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by zip1234 5y ago
It is subsidizing inefficient cities and land use, causes massive environmental harm, and the people that benefit the least from subsidized driving are the poorest people. If it is such a universal good that benefits everyone and people are
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by zip1234 5y ago
Use taxes pay for less than half of road funding. Make it so that use taxes pay for ALL of road funding for a start.
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by zip1234 5y ago
They still had minimum parking requirements last I checked.
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by zip1234 5y ago
Mostly agree, but disagree slightly with number 5. In most places, it is illegal to build any denser. Town zoning laws are notoriously slow to change such that they do not keep up with the market and actually codify a lot of these problems
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by zip1234 5y ago
The US government spends Bezos' net worth every 2 weeks and doesn't have their own functioning human space launch system at the moment.
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by zip1234 5y ago
It is estimated that millions of animals per year are killed by cars in the United States alone. Seems like it happens enough that people should be driving slower and watching for it. I'm not sure what that should be called, but &#x27
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by zip1234 5y ago
People in general are bad at driving and the potential for harm is much higher in a car than a bike due to the kinetic energy involved. Read about how complicated human visual perception is, how cognition changes at the slightest distract
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by zip1234 5y ago
Yes, of course, unless someone deliberately crashed, it was unintentional. That doesn't mean nothing wrong happened. Likely multiple preventable or fixable issues happened that led to said accident. Governments know how to design road
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by zip1234 5y ago
I feel like XML just needed a revision to remove a bit of cruft, simplify, add ways to handle certain characters, and a few other things. Instead we have YAML...
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by zip1234 5y ago
At least in the US, average sale price of a new car is $40k.
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by zip1234 5y ago
I don't think they are banning ICE cars--just new ICE cars. Anyways, simultaneous with electric cars being a big thing, e-bikes are taking off. Many European cities are wonderfully suited to e-bikes, so that may take the pressure off o
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by zip1234 5y ago
Not sure why, but that chart doesn't include Ford, which just released the Mach E, which happens to be selling very well right now in Europe.
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by zip1234 5y ago
My understanding is that hard seltzers are mostly made in a fashion similar to beer. They use cane sugar rather than barley in the fermentation process.
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by zip1234 5y ago
That was indeed an interesting read. To be fair that sounds more anarchist/hippy commune than what the article today was about.
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by zip1234 5y ago
I didn't read this as 'completely isolated community'--the author writes about a rail station. Also if it is as idyllic as described it would be swamped by tourists.
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by zip1234 5y ago
I take this more as a thought experiment on how building a town without the primary nuisances of 'modern' places. Cars have enabled many things but they are not unequivocally good. I understand the positives, but they produce a LO
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by zip1234 5y ago
A refreshing read. Most 'modern' towns are loud mainly because of vehicles and lawn care. It is interesting to think about a town built around not needing those things.
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by zip1234 5y ago
Part of the reason for the cost of living there is the cost of housing being high because of artificially restricted supply. Why live there? Plentiful jobs and mild weather seem like good enough reasons.
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by zip1234 5y ago
Unfortunately, driving is currently massively subsidized. If drivers simply had to pay for the road usage and the negative externalities of driving, such as noise and pollution, I think a lot less people would drive. Gas taxes and fees curr
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by zip1234 5y ago
1. Most cars actually get worse mileage at higher speeds: Source: https://afdc.energy.gov/data/10312 2. Electric cars can go MUCH further at slower speeds than at higher speeds. It is something like 25mph that maximize
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by zip1234 5y ago
It 'may' decrease carrying capacity of highways. Also, induced demand is a real observed phenomenon with roadways. The more capacity there is, the more people will drive. Paradoxically, when capacity is removed, traffic will often
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by zip1234 5y ago
I'm not sure how externalities should be priced, but it does seem like a good idea, especially in the age of climate change. It is likely politically and practically very difficult though.
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by zip1234 5y ago
It's also free if your organization makes less than $1M.
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by zip1234 5y ago
$500/yr is expensive for a professional developer?
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by zip1234 5y ago
Gambling your entire net worth on a single hyper-local investment is not a good idea.
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by zip1234 5y ago
and bikes
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by zip1234 5y ago
Parking minimums should not exist, for about 1000 reasons. For further reading on the topic, check out 'the high cost of free parking'. They are a failed experiment from the mid-20th century. Many places are switching to parking m
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by zip1234 5y ago
LVT would make it much more difficult. LVT does not value based on the improved properties on a site--in the purest form, it is a tax based on the land alone. A vacant lot would have the same tax as a lot with a tall building.
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by zip1234 5y ago
In the US today usage based taxes such as gas fund only half the money spent on roads. They should probably add in some sort of usage tax based on weight/size/emissions/noise that will apply to all vehicles.
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by zip1234 5y ago
Please price in externalities. Add in noise, total area it takes up, weight, and pollution.

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