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Originally Posted by valo403
A congestion tax, which is what you're referring to in Rome, isn't a bad idea. The issue is the availability of suitable alternative forms of transportation. It would be politically impossible to impose a tax on vehicles entering downtown without providing substantially increased transit options. The cities in which such a system operates effectively are almost always home to substantial public transport systems (London, Rome).
The toll road system, like that in Toronto, is a good idea for high volume thoroughfares especially. Most major world cities feature at least some toll roads, if not many. In many cases it's the only means to get new developments paid for, there are actually a number of large institutional investors who have divisions devoted to the development of tollways that they then receive returns from over the years. A toll system utilizing the electronic passes that most use, allowing cars to pass through with little delay, would be ideal for Deerfoot. The issue that the OP seems to be unable to grasp is that you can't implement a scheme that selectively targets individuals to pay the toll, user tolls on a public roadway are an all or nothing affair.
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A. I'm not the OP.
B. Why can't you selectively target individuals? Is this a law of nature?
When I worked at McDonald's when I was 15 I only paid 50% of what our regular customers paid for anything on the menu. One group of people (employees) paid less than another group of people (customers).
How about Shopper's Drug Mart. They offer
discounts to seniors on select days that the rest of us aren't entitled to
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There is precedent all around us for what I'm proposing.
Some of you guys have set your sights very low as to what is and what is not possible.