The time is right to re-examine the L.A. freeway

Re:The time is right to re-examine the L.A. freeway by Frozenlock on Friday August 21, 2015 @05:42PM (#10100428)

I always wondered about this. There must exist a price after which people will take their daily commune into account when negotiating for a job.

This could have multiple outcomes:

- Change the schedule so that not everyone is on the road the same time;

- More remote work;

- Higher salaries when you have to drive in peak hours.

You don't have less vehicules; just less at the same time.

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Re:The time is right to re-examine the L.A. freeway by lutorm on Friday August 21, 2015 @06:37PM (#10100686)

Really, congestion pricing would be a vanishingly small increase to the cost of commuting, given the already-existing costs in terms of money and lost time that goes along with doing it (by car, at least.)

Edit: good read: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/10/06/the-true-cost-of-c...

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Re:The time is right to re-examine the L.A. freeway by paganel on Friday August 21, 2015 @06:06PM (#10100532)

> - Change the schedule so that not everyone is on the road the same time

This was actually what the former Communist authorities from my Eastern European country did back in the late '70s- the'80s, when public transport in the capital city was like this: http://www.ap-arte.ro/fckupload/82_1632%20april%20Tram_super... and http://jurnalul.ro/thumbs/big/2009/06/05/trasee-interminabil... .

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Re:The time is right to re-examine the L.A. freeway by skybrian on Friday August 21, 2015 @06:00PM (#10100504)

It also makes carpooling more attractive since you can split the cost (or it might be waived).

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Re:The time is right to re-examine the L.A. freeway by jchrisa on Saturday August 22, 2015 @06:50AM (#10102163)

The price is called your sanity.

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