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Re:Superblocks: how Barcelona is taking city streets back fr... by vasilipupkin on Sunday August 07, 2016 @10:13AM (#12242130)
You don't have to eliminate parking at all to achieve this. All you have to do is shift city taxation towards taxing parking more in relative terms. Encourage people to use existing public transportation more
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Re:Superblocks: how Barcelona is taking city streets back fr... by mamon on Sunday August 07, 2016 @11:44AM (#12242378)
>> All you have to do is shift city taxation towards taxing parking more

And that's exactly what's wrong with this idea: in a democratic society such taxation changes would be temoporary at best - people would just vote for politicians that would change it back during the next elections.

On the other hand, gradualy increasing quality of public transportation by investing more money in it would be something that noone would protest against, and once public transportation is equaly or more convenient than car travel people would switch on their own.

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Re:Superblocks: how Barcelona is taking city streets back fr... by vasilipupkin on Sunday August 07, 2016 @04:30PM (#12243513)
People are not stupid, they are often uninformed. Politicians' job is to advocate for good policies in a way that people understand and support
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Re:Superblocks: how Barcelona is taking city streets back fr... by ethanbond on Sunday August 07, 2016 @02:03PM (#12242930)
Ah so just magically make money appear. Not by tax policy nor by fare hikes (which people certainly do protest against, wildly).
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