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Re:Car Bloat: “Huge Cars Are Terrible for Society” by rootusrootus on Monday August 07, 2023 @03:02PM (#37039161)
Road damage goes up at the 4th power of the axle weight. It would be simpler to just make commercial trucks pay the entirety of road taxes. Easy to collect, and it would spread out the cost to everyone who benefits from commercial trucking (i.e. you really do want roads even if you don't own a car).
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Re:Car Bloat: “Huge Cars Are Terrible for Society” by thinkling on Monday August 07, 2023 @06:10PM (#37041638)
But on many city streets a very large percentage of heavy vehicles are... public buses. Not sure it makes sense to shift the cost for road repair to the public transit agency.
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Re:Car Bloat: “Huge Cars Are Terrible for Society” by MichaelZuo on Monday August 07, 2023 @07:30PM (#37042368)
Why not, if their buses literally do >99.9% of the road damage?
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Re:Car Bloat: “Huge Cars Are Terrible for Society” by markstos on Monday August 07, 2023 @08:43PM (#37042995)
Buses carry many more people, so the damage-per-user-mile is mitigated.

Also, buses don’t require storage at the destination, aka parking. Cutting parking space allows the city to be more walkable, further mitigating vehicle damage.

And increased density is also good for the tax revenue per square mile, which is also good for the city’s bottom line.

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Re:Car Bloat: “Huge Cars Are Terrible for Society” by MichaelZuo on Monday August 07, 2023 @11:16PM (#37044090)
Regular buses (non-articulated, non-double decker) almost never carry more than a few dozen people.
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Re:Car Bloat: “Huge Cars Are Terrible for Society” by red-iron-pine on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @08:36AM (#37048067)
> a few dozen people

still a massive win considering that the F-150 is the top selling vehicle in the US. Not car, not truck, overall vehicle. A few dozen people in big trucks will far outweigh the damage of a bus

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Re:Car Bloat: “Huge Cars Are Terrible for Society” by MichaelZuo on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @10:52AM (#37049848)
Not if the bus does >100x the road damage of an F150 in terms of road repair costs...
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Re:Car Bloat: “Huge Cars Are Terrible for Society” by warrenm on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @01:25PM (#37052552)
Buses are empty (or effectively empty) the vast majority of the time they're driving around
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