Taxing Uber and Lyft rides is L.A's latest plan to free up congested roads

Re:Taxing Uber and Lyft rides is L.A's latest plan to free u... by mrhappyunhappy on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @07:36PM (#19259838)

There are no practical means of transit in LA. Sure, there are light rail here and there but it doesn’t get you most places you want to go.

Charging tolls does not fix anything. All that does is enable those with money to have a slightly less stressful commute and add an empty lane to an otherwise crowded highway.

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Re:Taxing Uber and Lyft rides is L.A's latest plan to free u... by amanaplanacanal on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @11:45AM (#19264420)

At some point there will be an incentive to move closer to where you drive to the most often. For a lot of people this would be their job.

Unfortunate that the sprawl is so heavily subsidized. In a world where it wasn't, people would make different choices about where to live and work.

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Re:Taxing Uber and Lyft rides is L.A's latest plan to free u... by mrhappyunhappy on Thursday February 28, 2019 @05:36AM (#19270410)

It’s not so simple. Many couples don’t work in the same place. You could have the wife working in city A. And the husband working in city B 30 miles away. Moving to where they work only works for one and not the other. In other cases they have kids and the school districts in large cities are absolute shit. In that case you move for the school district so that your kids can have better chances in the same rat race you are in.

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