Re:How to stop the decline of public transport in rich count...
by pc86 on Thursday June 21, 2018 @02:17PM
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Out of curiosity how do you finance all this public transport when driving is so expensive you lose money with each tax increase?
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Re:How to stop the decline of public transport in rich count...
by unicornporn on Thursday June 21, 2018 @02:35PM
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It's a balancing act I suppose. People still find that it's worth paying to take the car, but not to the same extent as without the tolls (it only costs between $1 and $4 depending on the time of the day). I'd guess there's still some headroom for increasing the tolls without decreasing the car traffic too much.
If it were too expensive there'd be less money to finance public transportation which, I guess, creates a strange dependency. It somehow works, but there's still of course far too much car traffic.