• @[email protected]
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    373 days ago

    With he way people talk about it here you’d think they’re being asked to sacrifice a child to drive below 60th.

  • @then_three_more
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    133 days ago

    Tbh I’m shocked that Europe did charging first. I would have thought all the roads in America would have been owned by private companies and each would have a charge to use them.

    • HobbitFoot
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      83 days ago

      New York didn’t sell its roads to do congestion pricing.

      • @then_three_more
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        23 days ago

        I know. I just mean in general with how uber capitalist American society seems to be. It surprises me that all the roads weren’t sold if to businesses so that a profit could be made. Seems like a massive missed opportunity.

        • @[email protected]
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          33 days ago

          It seems like the forces trying to ensure car dependency won that one. I’d have much preferred a history of expensive roads because we’d have more walkable/bikable/transit oriented development this whole time.

          • @then_three_more
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            32 days ago

            If the roads were private they’d have either made walking along them chargeable or just banned that.

        • HobbitFoot
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          23 days ago

          A lot of cities learned after Chicago sold off its parking spaces.