09-27-2016, 09:15 PM
(09-27-2016, 09:11 PM)BuildingScout Wrote: I said it before and I'll say it again:
We shouldn't force people off cars, but tempt them into public high quality efficient transportation.
I've lived in Germany and travel there several times a year. Germany has the best car infrastructure in the world: no speed limit autobahns. Yet, in all that time I've rented a car exactly once, since I always found public transit (tram, buses , LRT, trains) to be the preferable option.
I believe there are two things that are done to disincentivize driving. First, driver's bear much more of the cost of driving than they do here. Whether you call that disincentivizing or simply being fair, I'm not sure, but either way, it makes driving far less attractive because a huge part of the cost is no longer paid by "other people".
Second, cars are often banned from city centers etc.
But generally yes, attracting to transit is a better option. Just as we've done with driving for 50 years.