I think people might have missed that the article talking about extending the subsidy that already exists for below $80k household income to everyone. Financially it's probably better to do that and then clawing it back through taxes. Props to labour to making that pre july graph much more consistent though.
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I'm definitely not against adding more public transport or pushing working from home but that's not really going to help with traffic unless you also control population growth because you'll just have more demand. Look around at other cities the only ones that don't have large amounts of peak hour congestion have tolling arrangements or some sort of car usage restriction.
Look up induced demand but the tldr is that adding more roads or reducing the cost just encourages more people to travel. Currently a lot of roads you are just paying this in time but this is inefficient as it doesn't encourages car sharing or buses (unless they are given priority). The revenue unlike wasted time in traffic can also be used to improve the road capacity or for public transit alternatives.
That's true but more an argument why we need more consistent tolling not to mention more congestion pricing.
Maybe... haven't seen any issue accessing lemmy.world content but maybe there are delays.
Are you willing to do an unpopular solution? Tolls.
If there is a performance overload isn't that a natural block to more users?
I mean if they are going to park on it, it's probably better than real grass. There really should be someway it's penalised for the neighbourhood effects