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So the solution to increase mobility is… to make it less practical for people to have cars, ie, to be mobile. Aha aha.
I actually own a car in NYC and think these would make things more practical. I would happily trade time spent looking for parking for a minor fee and would happily trade time spent in traffic for a toll.
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I actually own a car in NYC and think these would make things more practical. I would happily trade time spent looking for parking for a minor fee and would happily trade time spent in traffic for a toll.
Sounds like you would trade convenience for a reduction of freedom for the young and the poor.
So the solution to increase mobility is… to make it less practical for people to have cars, ie, to be mobile. Aha aha.
Glad to see practical suggestions that don't call for building new rail lines. Pricing road use appropriately (which includes everything including: congestion pricing, parking rates, tag violations, automated red light cameras, citizen reports, and tag violations) would go a long way.
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I actually own a car in NYC and think these would make things more practical. I would happily trade time spent looking for parking for a minor fee and would happily trade time spent in traffic for a toll.
Sounds like you would trade convenience for a reduction of freedom for the young and the poor.
So the solution to increase mobility is… to make it less practical for people to have cars, ie, to be mobile. Aha aha.
So the solution to increase mobility is… to make it less practical for people to have cars, ie, to be mobile. Aha aha.
In car-choked cities the average car speed taking into account congestion may be lower than walking or cycling. So less of them will increase mobility for sure, both for those in cars and those using other tranportation means.
So the solution to increase mobility is… to make it less practical for people to have cars, ie, to be mobile. Aha aha.
A car is a great tool when you need to haul a large amount of things over a very long distance (100+ miles). Or you need to go more than ~30 miles in a day (while the US average is above this, most metros are far below).
It's absolutely asinine to think that a car is the right tool for things like simple trips to stores, day to day errands, work commutes, or any other intercity activity.
Those should all be easy and convenient with safe, low cost solutions for all people in a metro, and cars have - again and again - utterly failed at that. They're slow, expensive, unusable by children and the elderly. They actively make the area worse with parking requirements that often emphasize sprawl over density (that parking lot could be housing...). They pollute at an incredible rate and are a leading cause of death.
Wanting a car is fine. Wanting to always drive a car in a dense urban area is fucking dumb.
The lack of understanding in your comment seems pretty intentional.