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Indigenous riders try out free transit, EV use in Vancouver project (www.nationalobserver.com)
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[–] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

We should reframe the question as, how much would you want to pay in taxes to have 10%, 20%, 50% fewer drivers on the road between you and the place in the city you want to be?

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    I use transit a few times a year and drive once a week. I would absolutely pay from my property tax for fewer drivers on the road. The cost is unfortunately not reducible to some % fewer drivers on the road; that'd be more the specific project or vehicle for change, of which transit is one (of hopefully many)...

    P.S. take it from the cop budget that eats half the budget. And put me on that tesseract list already!

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    It's true I can't convert a given amount of money into a fixed percentage of reduced traffic, I can only give estimates for each project in a particular region.

    You also correctly mention the point I'm trying to drive home (pun intended), that funding alternatives to driving benefits drivers too. Whereas wider highways only create more traffic on existing unwidened roads and incur higher road maintenance costs for benefits that quickly disappear after opening.

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