Re:Let’s not demonize driving, just stop subsidizing it
by closeparen on Thursday February 16, 2017 @11:36PM
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In principle, if you can make a 1:1 atomic swap between driving subsidies and a Manhattan-level subway system, you should do it.
In practice, I think you're likely to eliminate people's current perfectly good option just to lift public transit from abysmal to mediocre. It would depend on the proposal.
Re:Let’s not demonize driving, just stop subsidizing it
by gpawl on Friday February 17, 2017 @01:09AM
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No one has a perfectly good option today. They have a pollution-choked, collision-prone, 20%-workday-wasting commute.
Re:Let’s not demonize driving, just stop subsidizing it
by robertlagrant on Friday February 17, 2017 @01:35AM
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This is exactly it - people are so used to thousands of road deaths a year, funding unpleasant oil-supplying regimes, polluting their neighbourhoods and traffic that they don't realise they are avoidable. As mentioned before, it's a lack of imagination.
It sounds like it just increases their health risks and lowers the quality of their landscapes over those other options.