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Re:Why Do We Still Commute? by dsfyu404ed on Friday November 03, 2017 @10:44AM (#15619539)
>a stupid bridge that has had every social engineering plot applied to it to no avail (HOV lanes with pay-to-use transponders being the latest fashion and cops to enforce the rules slowing everyone else down).

Too bad just paying poor people not to use the bridge isn't politically correct.

It would be a heck of a lot more efficient than combining a bunch of disincentives that affect the lower classes.

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Re:Why Do We Still Commute? by marcosdumay on Friday November 03, 2017 @10:58AM (#15619637)
> Too bad just paying poor people not to use the bridge isn't politically correct.

Why does nobody ever try free public transportation? Paying the poor brings a lot of practical issues, but at a minimum you can make them not pay for taking the long route.

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Re:Why Do We Still Commute? by dsfyu404ed on Friday November 03, 2017 @11:13AM (#15619758)
> free public transportation

Because someone has to pay for it.

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Re:Why Do We Still Commute? by marcosdumay on Friday November 03, 2017 @11:19AM (#15619816)
And yet, here we are, paying it through the nose by losing time in transit, and contemplating wether it would be a moral thing to pay poor people into taking a longer route.
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Re:Why Do We Still Commute? by JBlue42 on Friday November 03, 2017 @02:31PM (#15621299)
Yeah, commute times are lost productivity. The stress factor can lead to health problems. Society will always pay a cost.
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Re:Why Do We Still Commute? by s73ver_ on Friday November 03, 2017 @01:35PM (#15620868)
They generally have jobs that are the least likely to be flexible with start and end hours.
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