(May 30, 2022 at 1:48 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: In principle, penalizing undesirable behavior directly work better than Penalizing everyone to create incentive to lure wrong doers away from wrong doing.
One thing to keep in mind is that building and maintaining roads for cars costs a lot of money. Sometimes people talk as if roads are just naturally occurring things, but of course they are more like big machines that require a huge amount of tax. If the design of the city's transportation prioritizes auto use, then undesirable behavior is being subsidized.
As a non-driver, I could say that I'm being penalized by paying taxes to support all those car users.
Moving a significant percentage of people from private cars to simple public transportation would lower the amount spent on auto infrastructure.
