I am hereby adopting the brilliant phrase 'sado-progressivism' for the mean-spirited anti-driver legislation we're seeing everywhere but I do suggest you go back and look at how bike lanes actually work in big cities (e.g. London where I live). To state the obvious: they're kind of like roads. They're under-used and then they're more used and then they're used just right and then they're over-used (and then you need more).
It's fairly obvious that the goal of congestion pricing is not to decrease traffic congestion, it's to leverage traffic congestion to generate revenue for alternative modes of transportation. While I agree with you that there are a host of unaddressed problems with those other modes, in principle, the idea of subsidizing a societal good with revenue from activities that are more societally harmful makes sense to me.
Or build a few expressways through Manhattan to get through traffic off local streets? Nah, we just want our artists lofts, walk-ups and brownstones. Listen, stop being pretentious snobs, Manhattanites. We know the kinds of buildings you prefer, but you have to take a few for the team here.
I am hereby adopting the brilliant phrase 'sado-progressivism' for the mean-spirited anti-driver legislation we're seeing everywhere but I do suggest you go back and look at how bike lanes actually work in big cities (e.g. London where I live). To state the obvious: they're kind of like roads. They're under-used and then they're more used and then they're used just right and then they're over-used (and then you need more).
It's fairly obvious that the goal of congestion pricing is not to decrease traffic congestion, it's to leverage traffic congestion to generate revenue for alternative modes of transportation. While I agree with you that there are a host of unaddressed problems with those other modes, in principle, the idea of subsidizing a societal good with revenue from activities that are more societally harmful makes sense to me.
Or build a few expressways through Manhattan to get through traffic off local streets? Nah, we just want our artists lofts, walk-ups and brownstones. Listen, stop being pretentious snobs, Manhattanites. We know the kinds of buildings you prefer, but you have to take a few for the team here.