Y no congestion pricing that applies to all automotive vehicles?https://twitter.com/aaronpeskin/status/943619576591368192 …
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Replying to @kimmaicutler
Remember mass transit is heavily subsidized. Personal cars are huge profit centers for the State. Instead of taxing cars more heavily, lets stop subsidizing mass transit.
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Replying to @mp3michael @kimmaicutler
Cars are subsidized enormously via taxpayer funded roads and highways and uncompensated externalities from emissions. Get rid of those subsidies first, then move the $$ to new transit that actually works for a densely populated region instead of pushing sprawl and traffic.
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Replying to @ahabeetle @kimmaicutler
Please show your work b/c my research shows the exact opposite: Taxes paid in '14 by CA drivers:$20.3B** Reg $6.5B Gas $4.9B New car sales $4.4B Parking fees $1B Fines, tickets $1.5B Fed gas $2B **Not incld above. Taxes on - insurance - used car sales - lease payment - smog fees
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Thanks for enumerating though note roads have great deal of deferred maintenance so cars are undercharged in that regard.
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Replying to @patwater @mp3michael and
Also What do you make of the cost of air pollution and congestion externalities of private cars? And what transit system are you using as the basis of your analysis of transit subsidies? LA =\= nyc =/= Hong Kong etc.
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Much of road congestion is due to highly inefficient govt roads. They're rewarded if there's traffic jams with more funding. Ex: Stop lights are mostly dumb timers which cost billions in fuel and congestion. If they had smarts of a smartphone traffic would be 2-3x better.
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When you call them “govt roads,” I’m not quite clear about how private roads would operate better or dynamically respond to traffic jams.
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