Vancouver proposing tax on driving in city center
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The Agenda 2030 shit is getting more transparent.
Take the hint : get away from the cities.
Kelowna city council also received a report pushing for a "driver tax".
Step 1) Import billions of Chinese. Get Beijing-like traffic jam
Step 2) Impose tax
Step 3) Profit
Chancouver in action.
I see london mentioned there. Maybe they should have a $5000 fee for terror attacks, you know, reduce those by 10% instead. Throw acid attacks and stabbings in there for good measure. Maybe child grooming too, but that's a lot to ask of the MP's.
So it's a toll.
Not really. It's a proposition of a massive surveillance system across many or all roads to track and charge drivers via monitoring their license plate, which would probably evolve to an actual tracking device.
Seems like this is a controversial take around here, but I support this. Cities and spend billions building and expanding roads to reduce traffic congestion, but ultimately that produces even more traffic. Putting a price on traffic is a market oriented way to address the problem, while making roads pay for themselves. Corona aside, cities are getting taller and denser and most downtown roads aren't getting any wider.
Where would be the best place to find per-ride costs for public transportation in my city?
The price of toll roads will always force people out of cars, so it's hard to judge purely on that point. Also, in my city, the majority of workers go to the city using transit since parking is non-existant. Only the elites drive in for work. I would guess Vancouver being very dense is even more like this.
Reading the article it seems like the proceeds would fund "sustainable transportation options and other climate emergency actions" which is pretty awful so who knows though.
Trust me mate you don't wanna be more like England
Well, it kinda is a conspiracy and not a theory anymore. Most big cities at least in Western Europe have been trying to get rid of cars. It's part of the green/left-wing utopia mindset.
Around here they're trying to make driving so unattractive that people stop doing it "voluntarily", e.g. lower than normal speed limit city-wide, speed traps every couple hundred meters, close existing roads to traffic, reduce the number of lanes, limit which cars are allowed into the city based on arbitrary pollution labels, etc.
To be fair they actually reduced the cost of public transportation which kind of shocked me.