I understand your sentiment, but the public absolutely pays for cars. Road construction and repair subsidies car ownership and is paid for by the government.
If you didn’t include the cost of the tracks in a light rail public transportation proposal you bet your ass there would be more built!
@Yondoza@anewbeginning Parking is a huge tax on everything. Parking minimums means that the government forces every business to build the cost of parking in to all their prices. Every house and apartment has the cost of parking added to it. In the case of a highrise apartment this can be an extra $50K on to the price of the apartment.
Governments could instead force businesses and housing developers to put that money toward public transport.
The forced cost of parking in the USA is more than the entire national debt.
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I understand your sentiment, but the public absolutely pays for cars. Road construction and repair subsidies car ownership and is paid for by the government.
If you didn’t include the cost of the tracks in a light rail public transportation proposal you bet your ass there would be more built!
@Yondoza @anewbeginning Parking is a huge tax on everything. Parking minimums means that the government forces every business to build the cost of parking in to all their prices. Every house and apartment has the cost of parking added to it. In the case of a highrise apartment this can be an extra $50K on to the price of the apartment.
Governments could instead force businesses and housing developers to put that money toward public transport.
The forced cost of parking in the USA is more than the entire national debt.