Steal This Idea: The Larger the Car, the More You Pay to Park
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Steal This Idea: The Larger the Car, the More You Pay to Park
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#2A minivan can very comfortably seat 6 adults. In a busy area, higher fees for larger vehicles may discourage carpooling and increase traffic.
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#3A minivan can very comfortably seat 6 adults. In a busy area, higher fees for larger vehicles may discourage carpooling and increase traffic.
Perhaps if the fee was more expensive for a single person, but economical for >2 people then the math works out.
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#4A minivan can very comfortably seat 6 adults. In a busy area, higher fees for larger vehicles may discourage carpooling and increase traffic.
The vast majority of people in the US and Canada are not buying minivans. They're buying comically large cars that endanger road users, and often even themselves because SUVs and trucks are not subject to the same road safety standards as sedans and minivans (in the US, at least. Not sure about Canada on this second point).
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#5A minivan can very comfortably seat 6 adults. In a busy area, higher fees for larger vehicles may discourage carpooling and increase traffic.
Unless a minivan costs more than 6x as much to park as a smaller car, it's not going to discourage carpooling. Realistically the vast majority of oversized cars are used for single drivers (and often don't even have any extra passenger or cargo space compared to a more regular sized car).
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#6As someone pointed out in this thread, this would discourage carpooling with eg minivans. Coming from a large-ish family of modest means, that would have cut down on the number of “field trips” my mom took us on which would have been a shame.
Instead, how about (car volume * size of blind spot in front of car) / (number of seats)?
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#7Just make vehicles taxes directly proportional to gross vehicle weight.
You drive a 200kg motorcyle, pay $X, you have a 2ton car, pay the 10x
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#8In the US, we literally don't have a choice. The only small (2-door) cars that are on the market are the Mini, Mazda MX5, Toyota GR, Subaru BRZ. The last three being sports cars. Everything else has pulled out of the country or has more doors (and is larger). It is really sad. I really wish Smart cars would come back as an option.
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#9A minivan can very comfortably seat 6 adults. In a busy area, higher fees for larger vehicles may discourage carpooling and increase traffic.
Unfortunately, the average vehicle ocupancy is around 1.6. Vans are a bit better at 2.4, but these numbers are puny compared to the 20-80 prople who fit in a single bus (which takes as much space as 3-4 cars).
Cars are a luxury in cities. The cities themselves pay for cars with noise, air quality and congestion. People should be encouraged to use them less in general.
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#10What about people falling into phase 1 homelessness: RVs